v1.24.0

magnitudedev/magnitudev1.24.0Sep 23, 2026by abimaelmartell

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AI Summary

This release enhances text extraction by reporting paint details (colors and render modes) for text runs and expands document metadata parsing to include Author, Subject, Keywords, Creator, Producer, CreationDate, and ModDate. It also fixes decoding issues for PDF titles and improves text extraction for the `"` operator.

Key Highlights

  • Added `fill_color`, `stroke_color`, and `render_mode` to `TextItem` to report text paint details.
  • Expanded document information parsing to include Author, Subject, Keywords, Creator, Producer, CreationDate, and ModDate.
  • Fixed PDF Title decoding, resolving mojibake issues in UTF-16LE and incorrect handling of PDFDocEncoding.
  • Improved text extraction for the `"` operator previously skipped by the page parser.

Breaking Changes

  • Rust literals for `PdfProcessResult` and `PdfTypeResult` must now explicitly include the new fields.

New Features

  • TextItem now exposes `fill_color`, `stroke_color`, and `render_mode` properties.
  • Document metadata fields (`author`, `subject`, `keywords`, `creator`, `producer`, `creation_date`, `mod_date`) are now available in API results.
  • Text extraction now correctly handles the `"` operator.
  • ActualText span weight is now calculated from the paint of the first painted glyph.

Full Release Notes

Changes since 1.23.0:

- Report the paint each text run was shown with: `TextItem` gains `fill_color` and `stroke_color` (8-bit sRGB, read from DeviceRGB, DeviceGray, DeviceCMYK, ICCBased by component count and Indexed palettes; `None` for Separation, DeviceN, Pattern and CIE-based spaces) and `render_mode` (the `Tr` mode, so invisible text and clipping-only text can be told apart). Extraction and markdown are unchanged (#579).
- Read the document information dictionary's `/Author`, `/Subject`, `/Keywords`, `/Creator`, `/Producer`, `/CreationDate` and `/ModDate` beside `/Title`, each decoded as a PDF text string (#579).
- Decode the document `/Title` as a PDF text string: titles in PDFDocEncoding no longer read with U+FFFD, titles in UTF-16LE no longer read as mojibake, and titles given by reference are read (#579).
- Extract text a page shows with the `"` operator, which the page parser skipped together with the spacing and line move it makes (#579).
- Take an ActualText span's weight from the paint of its first painted glyph rather than from the paint in force at the span's end (#579).
- Keep two lines of small type apart when their baselines lie less than 5 pt apart: a stacked table header at 4.7 pt on a 4.5 pt pitch no longer comes out as words zipped from both lines, and type of 8⅓ pt and above groups exactly as before (#580).

API: `TextItem::fill_color`, `stroke_color` and `render_mode` (Node `fillColor`, `strokeColor`, `renderMode`; Python `fill_color`, `stroke_color`, `render_mode`; the `pdf2md --items-json` fields), and the `PdfProcessResult` / `PdfTypeResult` fields `author`, `subject`, `keywords`, `creator`, `producer`, `creation_date` and `mod_date` (Node and WebAssembly in camelCase, Python as attributes, and the `pdf2md --json` / `detect-pdf --json` members). Rust literals of these types must include the new fields.

Release preparation: #582.

[Full changelog](https://github.com/firecrawl/pdf-inspector/compare/v1.23.0...v1.24.0)

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