v0.1.0 | Initial Release

v0.1.0 Release - Initial Release

Welcome to PDFOxide - The Complete PDF Toolkit for Rust. This initial release brings spec-compliant PDF text extraction with intelligent reading order detection, Python bindings, and support for encrypted PDFs.

📖 Core Features

• PDF Text Extraction - Spec-compliant Unicode mapping per PDF Section 9.10
  • Intelligent reading order detection
  • Character-level positioning metadata
  • Support for embedded fonts and encoding
• Form Field Extraction - Interactive form data retrieval
  • Text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns
  • Form data values and defaults
• Image Extraction - Embedded image support
  • JPEG and PNG extraction
  • Resolution and color space metadata
• Encrypted PDF Support - Password-protected document handling
  • Standard encryption (40-bit, 128-bit, 256-bit)
  • Automatic decryption on read

🐍 Python Bindings

• PyO3-based bindings for Python 3.9+
• Pdf class for opening and reading PDFs
• FormExtractor for extracting form fields
• ImageExtractor for retrieving images
• Full async/await support

🏆 Early Adopters

💖 @magnus-trent - Thanks for issue #1, our first community feedback! Your message that PDFOxide "unlocked an entire pipeline" you'd been working on for a month validated that we were solving real problems. Early encouragement like this keeps open source projects going. 🚀

✅ Verification

• PDF spec compliance tested on diverse real-world PDFs
• Text extraction accuracy validated
• Form field extraction tested
• Encrypted PDF handling verified
• Python bindings tested on Python 3.9+

📥 Installation

Rust (crates.io)

cargo add pdf_oxide

Python (PyPI)

pip install pdf_oxide

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Release Date: November 6, 2025
Branch: main
Tag: v0.1.0
Initial Release