releasenotes.md

• 17 November 2020 - Version 1.2
  • New language supports for Telugu and Kannada. These are experimental lite recognition models. Their file sizes are only around 7% of other models and they are ~6x faster at inference with CPU.
• 12 October 2020 - Version 1.1.10
  • Faster beamsearch decoder (thanks @amitbcp)
  • Better code structure (thanks @susmith98)
  • New language supports for Haryanvi, Sanskrit (Devanagari Script) and Manipuri (Bengari script)
• 31 August 2020 - Version 1.1.9
  • Add detect and recognize method for performing text detection and recognition separately
• 23 August 2020 - Version 1.1.8
  • 20 new language supports for Bengali, Assamese, Abaza, Adyghe, Kabardian, Avar, Dargwa, Ingush, Chechen, Lak, Lezgian, Tabassaran, Bihari, Maithili, Angika, Bhojpuri, Magahi, Nagpuri, Newari, Goan Konkani
  • Support RGBA input format
  • Add min_size argument for readtext: for filtering out small text box
• 10 August 2020 - Version 1.1.7
  • New language support for Tamil
  • Temporary fix for memory leakage on CPU mode
• 4 August 2020 - Version 1.1.6
  • New language support for Russian, Serbian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Mongolian, Ukranian (Cyrillic Script) and Arabic, Persian(Farsi), Urdu, Uyghur (Arabic Script)
  • Docker file and Ainize demo (thanks @ghandic and @Wook-2)
  • Better production friendly with Logger and custom model folder location (By setting model_storage_directory when create Reader instance) (thanks @jpotter)
  • Model files are now downloaded from github's releases
  • readtext can now accept grayscale image
• 24 July 2020 - Version 1.1.5
  • New language support for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali (Devanagari Script)
  • Automatic word merging into paragraph (Use this feature by setting readtext's parameter 'paragraph' = True)