- 10 August 2020 - Version 1.1.7
- New language support for Tamil
- Temporary fix for memory leakage on CPU mode
- 4 August 2020 - Version 1.1.6
- New language support for Russian, Serbian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Mongolian, Ukranian (Cyrillic Script) and Arabic, Persian(Farsi), Urdu, Uyghur (Arabic Script)
- Docker file and Ainize demo (thanks @ghandic and @Wook-2)
- Better production friendly with Logger and custom model folder location (By setting
model_storage_directorywhen createReaderinstance) (thanks @jpotter) - Model files are now downloaded from github's releases
- readtext can now accept grayscale image
- 24 July 2020 - Version 1.1.5
- New language support for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali (Devanagari Script)
- Automatic word merging into paragraph (Use this feature by setting
readtext's parameter'paragraph' = True)