Pdfplumber

Added

- Add support for marked-content sequences, represented by `mcid` and `tag` attributes on `char`/`rect`/`line`/`curve`/`image` objects (h/t dhdaines). ([961](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/pulls/961))
- Add `gs_path` argument to `pdfplumber.open(...)` and `pdfplumber.repair(...)`, to allow passing a custom Ghostscript path to be used for repairing. ([953](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/issues/953))

Fixed

- Respect `use_text_flow` in `extract_text` (h/t dhdaines). ([983](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/pulls/983))

Added

- Add `PDF.path`: A `Path` object for PDFs loaded by passing a path (unless `repair=True`), and `None` otherwise. ([30a52cb](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/30a52cb) + [#948](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/issues/948))

- Accept `Iterable` objects for geometry utils (h/t dhdaines). ([53bee23](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/53bee23) + [#945](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/pulls/945))

Changed

- Use pypdfium2's *public* (not private) `.render(...)` method (h/t mara004). ([28f4ebe](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/28f4ebe) + [#899](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/discussions/899#discussioncomment-6520928))

Fixed

- Fix `.to_image()` for `ZipExtFile`s (h/t Urbener). ([30a52cb](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/30a52cb) + [#948](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/issues/948))

Added

- Add `antialias` boolean parameter to `Page.to_image(...)` and associated methods (h/t cmdlineluser). ([7e28931](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/7e28931))

Changed

- Normalize color representation to `tuple[float|int, ...]` ([917](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/issues/917)). ([57d51bb](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/57d51bb))
- Replace Wand with pypdfium2 for page.to_image(...). ([b049373](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/b049373))

Added

- Add `pdfplumber.repair(...)` and `.open(repair=True)` ([824](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/issues/824)). ([db6ae97](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/db6ae97))
- Add Page.find_table(...) ([873](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/issues/873)). ([3772af6](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/3772af6))
- Add `quantize=True`, `colors=256`, `bits=8` arguments/defaults to `PageImage.save(...)`. ([b049373](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/b049373))
- Extract and handle patterns + (some) color spaces. ([97ca4b0](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/97ca4b0))

Removed

- Remove support for Python 3.7 ([EOL'ed June 2023](https://endoflife.date/python)). ([c9d24d5](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/c9d24d5))
- Remove vestigial 'font' and 'name' properties from PDF objects. ([6d62054](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/6d62054))

Fixed

- Fix bug for re-crops that use relative=True ([914](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/issues/914)). ([0de6da9](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/0de6da9))
- Handle `use_text_flow` more consistently ([912](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/issues/912)). ([b1db5b8](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/b1db5b8))

Changed

- Make word segmentation (via `WordExtractor.char_begins_new_word(...)`) more explict and rigorous; should help in catching edge-cases in the future. ([6acd580](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/6acd580) + [ebb93ea](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/ebb93ea) + [#840](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/discussions/840#discussioncomment-5312166))
- Use `curve_edge` objects (instead of just `line` and `rect_edge` objects) in default table-detection strategy. ([6f6b465](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/6f6b465) + [#858](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/discussions/858))
- By default, expand ligatures into their consituent letters (e.g., `ffi` to `ffi`), and add the `expand_ligatures` boolean parameter to text-extraction methods. ([86e935d](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/86e935d) + [#598](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/issues/598))

Added

- Add `Page.extract_text_lines(...)` method. ([4b37397](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/4b37397) + [#852](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/discussions/852))
- Add `main_group`, `return_groups`, `return_chars` parameters to `Page.search(...)`. ([4b37397](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/4b37397))
- Add `.curve_edges` property to `PDF` and `Page`. ([6f6b465](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/6f6b465))

Fixed

- Fix handling of bytes-typed fontnames. ([9441ff7](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/9441ff7) + [#461](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/discussions/461) + [#842](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/discussions/842))
- Fix handling of whitespace-only and empty results of `Page.search(...)`. ([6f6b465](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/6f6b465) + [#853](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/discussions/853))

Fixed

- Fix `x0>x1`/etc. error for when drawing rect fills, per new Pillow version ([db136b7](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/commit/db136b7))