diff --git a/ReleaseNotes b/ReleaseNotes index 47ba6cb9f5..b2400f6a55 100644 --- a/ReleaseNotes +++ b/ReleaseNotes @@ -1,3 +1,57 @@ += Tesseract release notes July 11 2015 - V3.04.01 = + * Added OSD renderer for psm 0. Works for single page and multi-page images. + * Improve tesstrain.sh script. + * Simplify build and run of ScrollView. + * Improved PDF output for OS X Preview utility. + * INCOMPATIBLE fix to hOCR line height information - commit 134ebc3. + * Added option to build Tesseract without Cube OCR engine (-DNO_CUBE_BUILD). + * Enable OpenMP support. + * Many bug fixes. + += Tesseract release notes July 11 2015 - V3.04.00 = + * Tesseract development is now done with Git and hosted at github.com (Previously we used Subversion as a VCS and code.google.com for hosting). + * Tesseract now requires leptonica 1.71 or a higher version. + * Removed official support for VS 2008. + * Added support for 39 additional scripts/languages, including: amh, asm, aze_cyrl, bod, bos, ceb, cym, dzo, fas, gle, guj, hat, iku, jav, kat, kat_old, kaz, khm, kir, kur, lao, lat, mar, mya, nep, ori, pan, pus, san, sin, srp_latn, syr, tgk, tir, uig, urd, uzb, uzb_cyrl, yid + * Major updates to training system as a result of extensive testing on 100 languages. + * New training data for over 100 languages + * Improved performance with PIC compilation option. + * Significant change to invisible font system in pdf output to improve correctness and compatibility with external programs, particularly ghostscript. + * Improved font identification. + * Major change to improve layout analysis for heavily diacritic languages: Thai, Vietnamese, Kannada, Telugu etc. + * Fixed problems with shifted baselines so recognition can recover from layout analysis errors. + * Major refactor to improve speed on difficult images, especially when running a heap checker. + * Moved params from global in page layout to tesseractclass. + * Improved single column layout analysis. + * Allow ocr output to multiple formats using tesseract command line executable. + * Fixed issues with mixed eng+ara scripts. + * Improved script consistency in numbers. + * Major refactor of control.cpp to enable line recognition. + * Added tesstrain.sh - a master training script. + * Added ability to text2image training tool to just list available fonts. + * Added ability to text2image to underline words. + * Improved efficiency of image processing for PDF output. + * Added parameter description for each parameter listed with 'print-parameters' command line option. + * Added font info to hOCR output. + * Enabled streaming input and output of multi-page documents. + * Many bug fixes. + += Tesseract release notes Feb 4 2014 - V3.03(rc1) = + * Added OpenCL support (experimental). + * Added new training tool text2image to generate box/tif file pairs from text and truetype fonts. + * Added support for PDF output with searchable text. + * Removed entire IMAGE class and all code in image directory. + * Tesseract executable: support for output to stdout; limited support for one page images from stdin (especially on Windows) + * Added Renderer to API to allow document-level processing and output of document formats, like hOCR, PDF. + * Major refactor of word-level recognition, beam search, eliminating dead code. + * Refactored classifier to make it easier to add new ones. + * Generalized feature extractor to allow feature extraction from greyscale. + * Improved sub/superscript treatment. + * Improved baseline fit. + * Added set_unicharset_properties to training tools. + * Many bug fixes. + * More training source data included. + = Tesseract release notes Feb 01 2012 - V3.02 = * Added Right-to-left/Bidi capability in the output iterators for Hebrew/Arabic. * Added paragraph detection in layout analysis/post OCR.