Version 2.2.0, 2022-06-13

[MartinThoma]

What's Changed

The 2.2.0 release improves text extraction (#969 - again by @pubpub-zz 🙏):

• Improvements around /Encoding / /ToUnicode
• Extraction of CMaps improved
• Fallback for font def missing
• Support for /Identity-H and /Identity-V: utf-16-be
• Support for /GB-EUC-H / /GB-EUC-V / GBp/c-EUC-H / /GBpc-EUC-V (beta release for evaluation)
• Arabic (for evaluation)
• Whitespace extraction improvements

Those changes should mainly improve the text extraction for non-ASCII alphabets,
e.g. Russian / Chinese / Japanese / Korean / Arabic.

Full Changelog: 2.1.1...2.2.0

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This discussion was created from the release Version 2.2.0, 2022-06-13.

[MartinThoma]

The next topic is #749 - improving the encryption / decryption capabilities of PyPDF2 in 2.3.0. @exiledkingcc was already waiting for this for a while (I'm sorry 😅 🙈 )

[MartinThoma]

Another big group of topics (after #749) is how we deal with forms. Currently, there are 15 issues/PRs open: https://github.com/py-pdf/PyPDF2/labels/Forms
I wanted to look into FDF

[MartinThoma]

And I definitely also want to look into the 10 open performance topics: https://github.com/py-pdf/PyPDF2/labels/Performance