v0.7.0

Added

• Add "matrix" property to char objects, representing the current transformation matrix. (ae6f99e)
• Add pdfplumber.ctm submodule with class CTM, to calculate scale, skew, and translation of a current transformation matrix obtained from a char's "matrix" property. (ae6f99e)
• Add page.search(...), an experimental feature that allows you to search a page's text via regular expressions and non-regex strings, returning the text, any regex matches, the bounding box coordinates, and the char objects themselves. (#201 + 58b1ab1)
• Add --include-attrs/--exclude-attrs to CLI (and corresponding params to .to_json(...), .to_csv(...), and Serializer. (4deac25)
• Add py.typed for PEP561 compatibility and detection of typing hints by mypy. (ca795d1) [h/t @jhonatan-lopes]

Changed

• Bump pinned pdfminer.six version to 20220524. (486cea8)

Removed

• Remove utils.collate_chars(...), the old name (and then alias) for utils.extract_text(...). (24f3532)

Fixed

• Fix IndexError bug for .extract_text(layout=True) on pages without text. (#658 + ad3df11) [h/t @ethanscorey]