What's Changed

• Detect browsers in a Deno-compatible way by @yudai-nkt in #821
• Minor changes (#821, ff173ce)

New Contributors

• @yudai-nkt made their first contribution in #821

Full Changelog: v4.1.2...v4.1.3

What's Changed

• Fixed bug causing excessive memory use when using FS + writeFile function (#812)
• Fixed bug where setting output option debug: true was forcing recognition to be run (#788)
• Added warning message when setParameters is used to set options that can only be set during initialize (#816)
• Minor edits to reduce memory use (#815)
• Minor changes to documentation, types, and example code (#575, #791, #803, #805, #810, #817)

New Contributors

• @Simple7575 made their first contribution in #791
• @jiakuan made their first contribution in #805
• @omarboulbaze made their first contribution in #575

Full Changelog: v4.1.1...v4.1.2

What's Changed

• Fixed detection of image orientation metadata (#783)
  • Allows Tesseract.js to work with images taken on iOS devices
    • See this comment for explanation
• Minor changes to documentation and types (#781, #782, #778)

New Contributors

• @racosa made their first contribution in #781
• @Tshetrim made their first contribution in #782
• @l2ysho made their first contribution in #778

Full Changelog: v4.1.0...v4.1.1

What's Changed

• Added ability to run layout analysis without recognition (#656)
  • See this comment for instructions
• Added support for OffscreenCanvas in browser version by @nathanbabcock (#766)
• Fixed bug where recognize was running OCR even when not necessary (#769)
• Fixed bug where certain valid langPath URLs caused errors in browser version (#558)
• Removed problematic file-type and resolve-url dependencies (#773, #711)

Full Changelog: v4.0.6...v4.1.0

What's Changed

• Invalid langData (.traineddata files) are now cleared from cache (#753)
  • Note: setting cacheMethod: 'none' or cacheMethod: 'refresh' to prevent invalid files from being cached should no longer be necessary
    • See this comment for an explanation
• Added source maps to esm build (#761)
• Various updates to documentation

Full Changelog: v4.0.5...v4.0.6

What's Changed

• No changes to code
  • Removed unnecessary files to reduce the size of the npm package

Full Changelog: v4.0.4...v4.0.5

What's Changed

• Added SIMD-detection when corePath is manually specified (#735)
  • Important note for users who set corePath: for significantly faster performance, set corePath to a directory that includes both tesseract-core.wasm.js and tesseract-core-simd.wasm.js
  • See this comment for explanation
• Improved auto-rotate feature (rotateAuto: true) (#747)
• Switched default CDN from unpkg to jsdelivr (#743)
• Updated various dependencies (#729, #736, #737, #739, #741)
• Reduced size of npm package (#731, #734, #740)

New Contributors

• @Fdawgs made their first contribution in #731

Full Changelog: v4.0.3...v4.0.4

What's Changed

• Updated Tesseract to v5.3.0
  • This resolves bug with inverted (white on black) text recognition (#717)
• Minor documentation fixes (#612, #614, #682, #673)
• Better types for addJob by @nathanbabcock in #719

New Contributors

• @Sacramentix made their first contribution in #612
• @Porush made their first contribution in #682
• @eltociear made their first contribution in #673
• @Woutervdvelde made their first contribution in #614
• @nathanbabcock made their first contribution in #719

Full Changelog: v4.0.2...v4.0.3

What's Changed

• Fixed bug breaking compatibility with certain devices (#701)

Full Changelog: v4.0.1...v4.0.2

What's Changed

• Running recognize or detect with invalid image argument now throws error message (#699)
• Fixed bug with custom langdata paths (#697)

New Contributors

• @fmonpelat made their first contribution in #697

Full Changelog: v4.0.0...v4.0.1