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What's Changed

• Allow passing configs/variables on initialization in https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr/pull/349
• Stub file for completion (thanks @zdenop) in https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr/pull/350
• Expose leptonica's log level setting via set_leptonica_log_level function
• Keep tesseract's default debug_file setting
• Apply recommended Cython changes (https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr/commit/259922cd5e3f7892daf2a6ad3b4241820fd506b1)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr/compare/v2.6.3...v2.7.0

What's Changed

• Clarified the comments for tessdata path by @norm-ideal in https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr/pull/317
• skip unit test for GetComponentImages if Pillow is missing by @simonflueckiger in https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr/pull/341
• Build with C++17 for Tesseract>=5.3.4 by @bertsky in https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr/pull/343
• Github Actions: support jpeg/tiff/webp by @sirfz in https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr/pull/344
• update windows conda install by @simonflueckiger in https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr/pull/346
• Update several GitHub actions by @stweil in https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr/pull/347

New Contributors

• @norm-ideal made their first contribution in https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr/pull/317

Full Changelog: https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr/compare/v2.6.2...v2.6.3

• Updated pre-built binaries tesseract version to 5.3.3
• Added aarch64 wheels (#330 and #331)
• Updated Cython version requirement

• Added an upper bound to the Cython version dependency (<3.0.0) to avoid any breaking changes
• Binary wheels for Linux/macosx

• _pix_to_image now works with binary images (#274)
• SetImage with alpha channels support (#280)
• Leptonica 1.83.0 support (#306)
• Pointsize should be returned even if fontname doesn't exist (#308)
• Added Python 3.10, 3.11 setup classifiers

• Support new Tesseract 5 API (#242)
• Support Windows build (#250)
• GetBestLSTMSymbolChoices crash fix (#241)
• Fallback to BMP instead of PNG
• Create pix from a BMP image bytes (#156)

• Fix order of linker arguments (#211)
• Fix memory leaks in GetComponentImages (#213)

New features and enhancements:

• Support for RowAttributes method in LTRResultIterator (#192)
• SetImage: use PNG instead of JPEG fallback (#194)
• Replace STRING::string() by c_str() (#197)
• Don't use assignment operator for TessBaseAPI (#200)

Bugs fixed:

• pixa_to_list python3 segfault (#176)
• BlockPolygon python3 segfault (#185)

Tesseract v4 new API methods supported:

• GetBestLSTMSymbolChoices (#147)
• BlanksBeforeWord (#158)