| # Changelogs | |
| ### 2023-11-11 | |
| 1. Added new OCR model `48px` | |
| ### 2023-05-08 | |
| 1. Added [4x-UltraSharp](https://mega.nz/folder/qZRBmaIY#nIG8KyWFcGNTuMX_XNbJ_g) upscaler | |
| ### 2023-04-30 | |
| 1. Countless bug fixes and refactor | |
| 2. Add [CRAFT](https://github.com/clovaai/CRAFT-pytorch) detector, enable by `--detector craft` | |
| ### 2022-06-15 | |
| 1. Added New inpainting model LaMa MPE by [dmMaze](https://github.com/dmMaze) and set as default | |
| ### 2022-04-23 | |
| Project version is now at beta-0.3 | |
| 1. Added English text renderer by [dmMaze](https://github.com/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](https://github.com/pokedexter) | |
| 2. Added manual translation UI by [rspreet92](https://github.com/rspreet92) | |
| ### 2022-01-24 | |
| 1. Added text detection model by [dmMaze](https://github.com/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](https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01431) 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 | |