Spark NLP release notes 1.0.0

1.0.0

Release date: 12-02-2020

Overview

Spark NLP OCR functionality was reimplemented as set of Spark ML transformers and moved to separate Spark OCR library.

New Features

• Added extraction coordinates of each symbol in ImageToText
• Added ImageDrawRegions transformer
• Added ImageToPdf transformer
• Added ImageMorphologyOpening transformer
• Added ImageRemoveObjects transformer
• Added ImageAdaptiveThresholding transformer

Enhancements

• Reimplement main functionality as Spark ML transformers
• Moved DrawRectangle functionality to PdfDrawRegions transformer
• Added ‘start’ function with support SparkMonitor initialization
• Moved PositionFinder to Spark OCR

Bugfixes

• Fixed bug with transforming complex pdf to image