v0.3.77 | Search-index control lands in every first-party binding: `prepare_search()`/`clear_search_index()` (added to the Rust core in 0.3.76 alongside the new per-page search-index cache) can now be called from Python, JavaScript/WASM, Java/Kotlin/Scala/Clojure, Go, Ruby, PHP, Dart, R, Julia, Zig, C#, C++, Swift, Objective-C, and Elixir — not just Rust. `extract_text()`/`to_markdown()`/`to_plain_text()` no longer silently drop `/Artifact`-tagged content (running headers/footers, section identifiers) with no way to opt back in.

Added

• prepare_search()/clear_search_index() exposed across every language binding — callers can now build the search-index cache at a controlled point instead of paying for it on the first search() call, and free it before heavy extraction on the same document object, from any binding, not just Rust. Also fills in a pre-existing gap in the PHP binding, which had no public search() method at all (#952).
• include_artifacts option on extract_text()/to_markdown()/to_markdown_all()/to_plain_text()/to_plain_text_all() (Python; ConversionOptions.include_artifacts in Rust) — matches the include_artifacts parameter extract_words()/extract_text_lines() already had, default true.

Fixed

• extract_text(), to_markdown()/to_markdown_all(), and to_plain_text() unconditionally dropped content tagged /Artifact (ISO 32000-1:2008 §14.8.2.2.1 — running headers/footers, page numbers, watermarks), with no override, unlike extract_words()/extract_text_lines() which already defaulted to including artifact-tagged content for backward compatibility. On documents that tag a repeated footer carrying real information (e.g. a section identifier on every page of an engineering spec) as an artifact, this silently dropped that content from the vast majority of pages. All five methods now default to including artifact-tagged content, with include_artifacts=False available for the spec-correct exclusion behavior (#954).

Contributors

Issues reported by:

• @ankursri494 — #952 (prepare_search()/clear_search_index() missing from every binding but Rust)
• @tealtonyplanhub — #954 (extract_text() silently drops /Artifact-tagged content with no override)

Thank you!

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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.