Spark NLP release notes 3.6.0

3.6.0

Release date: 05-08-2021

Overview

Handwritten detection and visualization improvement.

New Features

• Added ImageHandwrittenDetector for detecting ‘signature’, ‘date’, ‘name’, ‘title’, ‘address’ and others handwritten text.
• Added rendering labels and scores in ImageDrawRegions.
• Added possibility to scale image to fixed size in ImageScaler with keeping original ratio.

Enhancements

• Support new version of pip for installing python package
• Added support string labels for detectors
• Added an auto inferencing of the input shape for detector models
• New license validator

Bugfixes

• Fixed display BGR images in display functions

New and updated notebooks

• Image Signature Detection example
• Image Handwritten Detection example
• Image Scaler example