v0.3.65 | Multilingual and layout extraction quality — right-to-left bidi reconstruction for Arabic and Hebrew, multi-region reading order for publisher sidebars and two-column academic pages, and CJK/Indic word segmentation — plus an in-house CCITT Group 4 fax decoder that honours `EncodedByteAlign`, structured two-column surfacing, and a batch of O(n²) hot-path removals.

Added

• Two-column structured extraction and tagged-structure surfacing (#734) — extract_structured now reports a per-line column_index for multi-column pages and, on tagged PDFs, surfaces marginal labels (Lbl → marginal label) and the nearest enclosing section (Sect/Art/Part → a document-stable section_id with cross-page continuity), per ISO 32000-1 §14.8.4. Additive and zero-risk for untagged input. Thanks @lggcs.
• Reading-order threads for linked content (#458) — article-thread (/Threads → /B bead) ordering is surfaced so content that flows across columns and pages can be read in author-intended order.
• In-house CCITT Group 4 (T.6) fax decoder (#738) — a from-scratch decoder for CCITTFaxDecode images that correctly honours EncodedByteAlign (ITU-T T.6 2D mode codes, Modified-Huffman run tables, reference-line changing-element walk), with partial-row recovery on truncated streams. Replaces a path that could silently fall back to an all-white image; bilevel fax images now decode to their real content. Thanks @potatochipcoconut.

Fixed

• Right-to-left Arabic/Hebrew text reconstructed in logical order — several classes of RTL extraction defect are corrected so Arabic and Hebrew read correctly instead of scrambled:
  • Cross-span cluster reversal (SEG-AR) — producers that draw an Arabic word as interleaved base-glyph and zero-width mark spans (the mark's x falling inside a neighbouring word) had their letters atom-sorted to word edges, scrambling e.g. الثدييات → ثالدييات. Pure-RTL lines with such zero-width-inside-a-span runs are now collapsed into a single visual-order span — glyphs ordered by x, combining marks bound to their base, word boundaries taken from the producer's own standalone space spans — then reversed to logical order (UAX #9 L2). A representative Arabic page improved from a heavily garbled paragraph to fully correct text.
  • RTL number preservation (SEG-AR / SEG-HE) — Arabic-Indic and Latin digit runs embedded in RTL text are no longer reversed: ٤٣٤١ now reads ١٤٣٤ (1434) and a Hebrew ל ,2009- now reads ל-2009,, matching a conformant bidi reorder.
  • Glyph-advance preservation when merging scrambled-RTL spans — merging adjacent RTL spans no longer corrupts true glyph positions, and a real word break bordering non-cursive punctuation is kept (rather than suppressed as a cursive-shatter space) on /ReversedChars producers.
• Multi-region reading order for publisher sidebars and two-column pages — narrow publisher-metadata sidebars are now segregated from the body and emitted after it (title and body merged top-to-bottom, sidebar last) instead of being interleaved, across text, Markdown, and HTML. Bottom-spanning blocks that follow a multi-column region are peeled correctly, numbered-list markers are skipped in rowspan-label reordering, and two-column prose is linearised column-major. A figure Form XObject's /BBox clip (ISO 32000-1 §8.10.1) now drops a draft-galley underlay a conformant renderer would clip — gated to figure-sized forms so a full-page content-frame wrapper keeps its body.
• CJK and Indic word segmentation — Korean number/counter spacing and line-break rejoining (1 만년 → 1만년), and stray spaces before Bengali/Devanagari/Latin punctuation (प्राणी । → प्राणी।), are corrected. Adobe predefined CIDFont collections decode through the documented CID → Unicode path (ISO 32000-1 §9.3.3).

Changed

• Performance — O(n²) and O(n·m) hot-path removals — drop-cap initial pairing uses a windowed binary search; the rotated-character filter is skipped entirely on unrotated pages; and table filtering, XY-cut, hyphen merging, and word extraction lose their quadratic hot paths. Text/Markdown/HTML output is unchanged by these changes.
• Redundant clip-mask clone dropped in apply_pending_clip (#654) — the render path no longer clones the clip mask when it is about to be replaced, trimming an allocation per clipped paint. Pixel output is sub-perceptually unchanged. Thanks @RayVR.

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Installation

Rust (crates.io)

cargo add pdf_oxide

Python (PyPI)

pip install pdf_oxide

JavaScript/WASM (npm)

npm install pdf-oxide-wasm

CLI (Homebrew)

brew install yfedoseev/tap/pdf-oxide

CLI (Scoop — Windows)

scoop bucket add pdf-oxide https://github.com/yfedoseev/scoop-pdf-oxide
scoop install pdf-oxide

CLI (Shell installer)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yfedoseev/pdf_oxide/main/install.sh | sh

CLI (cargo-binstall)

cargo binstall pdf_oxide_cli

MCP Server (for AI assistants)

cargo install pdf_oxide_mcp

Pre-built Binaries
Download archives for Linux, macOS, and Windows from the assets below. Each archive includes both pdf-oxide (CLI) and pdf-oxide-mcp (MCP server).

Platform Support

Platform	Architecture	Archive
Linux	x86_64 (glibc)	pdf_oxide-linux-x86_64-*.tar.gz
Linux	x86_64 (musl)	pdf_oxide-linux-x86_64-musl-*.tar.gz
Linux	ARM64	pdf_oxide-linux-aarch64-*.tar.gz
macOS	x86_64 (Intel)	pdf_oxide-macos-x86_64-*.tar.gz
macOS	ARM64 (Apple Silicon)	pdf_oxide-macos-aarch64-*.tar.gz
Windows	x86_64	pdf_oxide-windows-x86_64-*.zip

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for full details.