Version 5.1.0, 2024-10-27

What's new

New Features (ENH)

• Add layout_mode_font_height_weight argument to PageObject.extract_text() (#2920) by @hpierre001

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Fix font specificier for FreeText annotation (#2893) by @ssjkamei
• Line breaks are not generated due to incorrect calculation of text leading (#2890) by @ssjkamei
• Improve handling of spaces in text extraction (#2882) by @ssjkamei

Robustness (ROB)

• Soft failure for flate encode image mode 1 with wrong LUT size (#2900) by @stefan6419846

Documentation (DOC)

• Use latest package versions (#2907) by @stefan6419846
• Correct example of reading FileAttachment annotation (#2906) by @j-t-1

Developer Experience (DEV)

• Update pinned requirements (#2918) by @stefan6419846
• Make make_release.py compatible with Windows environment (#2894) by @pubpub-zz

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Remove references to outdated Python versions (#2919) by @stefan6419846
• Generalize the method of obtaining space_code (#2891) by @ssjkamei
• Unnecessary character mapping process (#2888) by @ssjkamei
• New LZW decoding implementation (#2887) by @MartinThoma

Testing (TST)

• Add LzwCodec for encoding (#2883) by @MartinThoma

Code Style (STY)

• Capitalize error messages (#2903) by @j-t-1
• Modify error messages in PdfWriter (#2902) by @j-t-1

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