v1.19.0

Name: holehe
Author: megadose

megadose/holehev1.19.0Sep 9, 2026by abimaelmartell

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AI Summary

This release focuses on refining text extraction accuracy by improving how PDFs handle bold styling, text scaling, and font mappings. It introduces legacy symbol rewrite metadata to Rust and Node environments and ensures clipped text runs are processed correctly.

Key Highlights

Preserve stroke-simulated bold text
Honor horizontal text scaling
Recover stale single-byte font mappings
Expose legacy symbol-rewrite metadata
Keep separately clipped text runs apart

Breaking Changes

Rust 'TextItem' literals need 'legacy_symbol_rewrite: false' for items without symbol cleanup
Node 'legacySymbolRewrite' field is optional and emitted only when cleanup changed a character

New Features

Expose legacy symbol-rewrite metadata in Rust and Node

Full Release Notes

Changes since **1.18.0**:

- Preserve stroke-simulated bold. [#511](https://github.com/firecrawl/pdf-inspector/pull/511)
- Honor horizontal text scaling. [#510](https://github.com/firecrawl/pdf-inspector/pull/510)
- Recover stale single-byte font mappings. [#516](https://github.com/firecrawl/pdf-inspector/pull/516)
- Expose legacy symbol-rewrite metadata in Rust and Node. [#519](https://github.com/firecrawl/pdf-inspector/pull/519)
- Keep separately clipped text runs apart. [#518](https://github.com/firecrawl/pdf-inspector/pull/518)

**Rust migration:** `TextItem` literals need `legacy_symbol_rewrite: false` for items without symbol cleanup. The Node `legacySymbolRewrite` field is optional and emitted only when cleanup changed a character.

[Full changelog](https://github.com/firecrawl/pdf-inspector/blob/v1.19.0/CHANGELOG.md) · [Compare with 1.18.0](https://github.com/firecrawl/pdf-inspector/compare/v1.18.0...v1.19.0)

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