Bugfix and maintenance release:

• Refine heuristic to filter out tall-ish whitespace elements that can throw off text chunking by considering realistic font sizes (thanks @travisbeale !)
• Lots of code cleanups and refactors (thanks @ZaqueuCavalcante, @Milchreis, @GustavAT !)
• Update PDFBox to 2.0.24

Bug fix and maintenance release:

• Updated dependencies
• clarify -a command's coordinate order (thanks @jeremybmerrill!)
• Extra information on coordinate system in command-line help text (thanks @harrybiddle!)
• Fix excessive memory usage issue with large (many pages) PDFs
• getFontSize -> getFontSizeInPt (#277)
• CommandLineApp: disable unused --debug flag
• Added a heuristic to filter out tall-ish whitespace elements that can throw off text chunking (thanks @travisbeale)

Bug fix and maintenance release:

• Make RectangleSpatialIndex public (#243 — Thanks @ejschoen!)
• Add right and bottom of area to JSON output (#265 — Thanks @laigor!)
• -g flag in command line app translates to ExtractionMethod.DECIDE
• Updated dependencies

Bug fix and maintenance release:

• Removes Java Spatial Index in favor of Java Topology Suite (0705bc6)
• Upgrade to PDFBox 2.0.9 (e37c666)
• Allow multiple occurrences of -a parameter. Allow -a parameter to accept % values as well as absolute values (#213 — Thanks @asheeshrana!)
• Fixes NPE in PointComparator (#206)
• General cleanups and refactor (#187 — Thanks @giorgiga!)

Bug fix release

• Fix #168: accept passwords from the command line application.
• remove dead code, cleanup
• Fix #174: account for non-(0,0) CropBoxes
• Support JBIG and JPEG2000 image formats

• Completed migration to PDFBox 2! (#150) Special thanks to @melisabok and the Shuttleworth Foundation.
• Minor bugfixes

• adds batch mode!
• a lot of bug fixes so that empty selections return empty data (rather than an error)
• rename internally some of the references to "Lattice" and "Stream" modes (previously Spreadsheet and Original or no-spreadsheet, respectively)
• support Java 9

tabula-java 0.9.1

tabula-java 0.9.0

Our 0.8.0 release is ready for real-world use (though there may still be some bugs).