Spark NLP release notes 3.7.0

3.7.0

Release date: 30-08-2021

Overview

Improve table recognition and render OCR results to the PDF with original image.

New Features

• Added ImageToTextPdf transformer for storing recognized text to the searchable PDF with original image
• Added PdfAssembler for assembling multipage PDF document from single page PDF documents

Enhancements

• Added support dbfs for store models. This allow to use models on Databricks.
• Improved ImageTableCellDetector algorithms
• Added params for tuning ImageTableCellDetector algorithms
• Added possibility to render detected lines to the original image in ImageTableCellDetector
• Added support to store recognized results to CSV in ImageCellsToTextTable
• Added display_table and display_tables functions
• Added display_pdf_file function for displaying pdf in embedded pdf viewer
• Updated license validator

New and updated notebooks

• Process multiple page scanned PDF (New)
• Image Table Detection example
• Image Cell Recognition example
• Image Table Recognition
• Tables Recognition from PDF