v0.1.0 — Initial Release

⚡ ferritext v0.1.0

First release of ferritext — a blazing fast, tiny OCR engine in pure Rust.

Highlights

• Pure Rust CRNN inference engine (no external ML frameworks)
• Preprocessing: grayscale, Otsu/Sauvola binarization, median denoise, deskew
• Text detection via connected component analysis + line merging
• CTC beam search decoder
• Output formats: plain text, JSON with bounding boxes, hOCR
• C FFI shared library
• Python bindings (PyO3)
• C++, C#, Julia binding wrappers
• 45 tests passing

⚠️ Note

This release ships with random (untrained) model weights. Pre-trained model weights for Latin scripts will be provided in a future release.