ghostscript-10.02.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[pierre]

Version 10.02.0 (2023-08-30)

Highlights in this release include:

The old, PostScript based PDF interpreter has been removed, it is no longer available.

We've continued to improve the performance of the PDF interpreter written in C and improve it's behaviour in edge and out-of-specification cases.

Our efforts in code hygiene and maintainability continue, with a particular focus on fuzz testing.

The usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes, and incremental improvements.

(9.53.0) We have added the capability to build with the Tesseract OCR engine. In such a build, new devices are available (pdfocr8/pdfocr24/pdfocr32) which render the output file to an image, OCR that image, and output the image "wrapped" up as a PDF file, with the OCR generated text information included as "invisible" text (in PDF terms, text rendering mode 3).

Mainly due to time constraints, we only support including Tesseract from source included in our release packages, and not linking to Tesseract/Leptonica shared libraries. Whether we add this capability will be largely dependent on community demand for the feature.

See ​Enabling OCR for more details.

[pierre]

Note that the only addition to OCR support in this release seems to be a fix for Windows.

[pierre]

Fixed at d73c1558