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• Fix for packaging issues
• Bugfix for older Tesseract versions, where the "--list-langs" option is not available
• Bugfix for terminals that don't support all UTF8 characters

• Use chdkptp utility for controlling cameras with CHDK firmware
• Fix instability when shooting with CHDK cameras
• Shoot images in RAW/DNG file format (experimental)
• Remove download step, images will be directly streamed to the project directory
• Remove combine plugin, images will be combined in capture step
• Device driver and plugins, as well as their order of execution can be set interactively via the configure subcommand, which has to be run before the first usage.
• Lots of internal API changes

Bugfix Release

• Fix typo in device manager that prevent drivers from being loaded

Bugfix release

Fixes a critical bug in the device driver namespace that prevented drivers from being loaded.

(Note to self: Do integration testing before releases...)

Bugfix Release

Fixes a critical bug that prevented spreads to be installed.

• Plugins can add completely new subcommands.
• GUI plugin that provides a graphical workflow wizard.
• Tesseract plugin that can perform OCR on captured images.
• pdfbeads plugin can include recognized text in a hidden layer if OCR has been performed beforehand.
• Use EXIF tags to persist orientation information instead of JPEG comments.
• Better logging with colorized output
• Simplified multithreading/multiprocessing code
• CHDK driver is a lot more stable now

• New plugin system based on Doug Hellmann's stevedore package, allows packages to extend spreads without being included in the core distribution
• The driver for CHDK cameras no longer relies on gphoto2 and ptpcam, but relies on Abel Deuring's pyptpchdk package to communicate with the cameras.
• Wand is now used to deal with image data instead of Pillow
• New 'colorcorrection' plugin allows users to automatically correct white balance.
• Improved tutorial

Initial release