Version 1.7.3

What's Changed

• Table linearization improvements by @Belval in #313

  • Add .get_text(), .to_html() and .to_markdown() functions to Linearizable which is now implemented by Document, Page, DocumentEntity and EntityList
  • Add HTMLLinearizationConfig and MarkdownLinearizationConfig as pre-configured TextLinearizationConfig
  • Add the follow parameters to TextLinearizationConfig
    • duplicate_text_in_merged_cells duplicates the text in merge cells to preserve row-level alignment
    • table_flatten_headers combines multi-row headers into a single row, duplicating the merged cells horizontally as needed
    • table_tabulate_remove_extra_hyphens removes extra hyphens '-' in markdown tables to reduce context length
    • max_number_of_consecutive_spaces defines the maximum number of contiguous whitespace characters, similar to max_number_of_consecutive_new_lines

• Fixes:

  • Fix trailing whitespace in cell text
  • Fix table_column_separator being hardcoded as '\t'
  • Fix table_row_separator being hardcoded as '\n'
  • Resets BytesIO buffer to 0 position by @abest0 in #310

New Contributors

• @abest0 made their first contribution in #310

Full Changelog: v1.7.2...v1.7.3