Spark OCR release notes

4.4.2

Release date: 30-05-2023

We are glad to announce that Visual NLP 😎 4.4.2 has been released. This is a small release with mostly bug fixes and minor improvements.

Fixes

• ImageTextDetectorV2 initialization bug happening in some cluster environments is now fixed.
• PdfToText and PdfToHocr now return document dimensions using the same data type(integer).
• Remaining 2 vulnerabilities from release 4.4.1 in JAR package are now gone.
• Fixed the problem causing the following exception in HocrToTextTable: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException.

New Features

• Bounding boxes spawning multiple lines are now supported in PositionFinder!

original: masked:

Here for “Lockheed Martin” PositionFinder will return two bounding boxes. Remember that you can still link the two bounding boxes to the original entity by using the ‘chunk index’.

• Support for Spark 3.4.
• Guidelines for building Visual NLP into a Java app.