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Changelogs

2023-11-11

  1. Added new OCR model 48px

2023-05-08

  1. Added 4x-UltraSharp upscaler

2023-04-30

  1. Countless bug fixes and refactor
  2. Add CRAFT detector, enable by --detector craft

2022-06-15

  1. Added New inpainting model LaMa MPE by dmMaze and set as default

2022-04-23

Project version is now at beta-0.3

  1. Added English text renderer by dmMaze
  2. Added new CTC based OCR engine, significant speed improvement
  3. The new OCR model now support Korean

2022-03-19

  1. Use new font rendering method by pokedexter
  2. Added manual translation UI by rspreet92

2022-01-24

  1. Added text detection model by dmMaze

2021-08-21

  1. New MST based text region merge algorithm, huge text region merge improvement
  2. Add baidu translator in demo mode
  3. Add google translator in demo mode
  4. Various bugfixes

2021-07-29

  1. Web demo adds translator, detection resolution and target language option
  2. Slight text color extraction improvement

2021-07-26

Major upgrades for all components, now we are on beta!
Note in this version all English texts are detected as capital letters,
You need Python >= 3.8 for cached_property to work

  1. Detection model upgrade
  2. OCR model upgrade, better at text color extraction
  3. Inpainting model upgrade
  4. Major text rendering improvement, faster rendering and higher quality text with shadow
  5. Slight mask generation improvement
  6. Various bugfixes
  7. Default detection resolution has been dialed back to 1536 from 2048

2021-07-09

  1. Fix erroneous image rendering when inpainting is not used

2021-06-18

  1. Support manual translation
  2. Support detection and rendering of angled texts

2021-06-13

  1. Text mask completion is now based on CRF, mask quality is drastically improved

2021-06-10

  1. Improve text rendering

2021-06-09

  1. New text region based text direction detection method
  2. Support running demo as web service

2021-05-20

  1. Text detection model is now based on DBNet with ResNet34 backbone
  2. OCR model is now trained with more English sentences
  3. Inpaint model is now based on AOT which requires far less memory
  4. Default inpainting resolution is now increased to 2048, thanks to the new inpainting model
  5. Support merging hyphenated English words

2021-05-11

  1. Add youdao translate and set as default translator

2021-05-06

  1. Text detection model is now based on DBNet with ResNet101 backbone
  2. OCR model is now deeper
  3. Default detection resolution has been increased to 2048 from 1536

Note this version is slightly better at handling English texts, other than that it is worse in every other ways

2021-03-04

  1. Added inpainting model

2021-02-17

  1. First version launched