v1.0.0

First official BlinkOCR SDK release

• Real time video and image OCR on mobile devices!

What's new to 1.0.0:

• BlinkOCR now supports several new fonts, which especially benefit receipt scanning use case.
  • Use them by specifying a whitelist of CharKeys in PPOcrEngineOptions
  • New fonts are:
    • PP_OCR_FONT_CHAINPRINTER
    • PP_OCR_FONT_HYPERMARKET
    • PP_OCR_FONT_PRINTF
    • PP_OCR_FONT_TICKET_DE_CAISSE
• You can now access two more properties of PPOcrChar objects
  • font - to get information about the font of the char
  • variants - to get a set of all alternative values for a specific char (note: a variant is defined as a combination of a unicode value + font, so there might be the same characters multiple times in the variants set - each time with different font)
• PPOcrEngineOptions now have the ability to turn off line grouping (collecting adjacent chars into lines) with lineGroupingEnabled property.
• Changes in Direct processing API
  • You are no longer required to call PPCoordinator initializeRecognizers and PPCoordinator terminateRecognizers.
  • Instead, initializeRecognizers is called lazily on first call of processImage method.
  • terminateRecognizers is called automatically in PPCoordinator destructor
• Added support for autorotation of PPScanningViewController. To support autorotation, use PPScanningViewController's new properties autorotate and supportedOrientations
• countless tweaks and fixes in OCR engine