Spark OCR release notes

5.0.2

Release date: 16-10-2023

We are glad to announce that Visual NLP 5.0.2 has been released! 🚀🚀🚀 New features, new models, bug fixes, and more! 📢📢📢

This is a small compatibility release to ensure the product runs smoothly on Google Colab, and that it remains compatible with the latest versions of Spark NLP and Spark NLP for Healthcare.

Changes : 📣

• Google Colab installation issues have been solved.

• New setting for M1 compatibility in Spark-NLP dependency:

  start(m1=True|False)
  use m1=True 
  

  use m1=True enables the M1 compatible version of Spark-NLP.

• New ImageToTextV3 annotator : this is a new version of the original LSTM based ImageToText annotator, with the difference that it accepts input regions in a similar fashion to ImageToTextV2. In the original ImageToText implementation all layout analysis happens implicitly within the annotator itself, without external help.

This release is compatible with Spark NLP 5.1.1 and Spark NLP forHealthcare 5.1.1