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title: "Changelog for Nutrient Python SDK"
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md_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/python/changelog.md"
last_updated: "2026-05-30T02:20:01.349Z"
description: "Latest updates and release notes for Nutrient Python SDK, including new features, improvements, and bug fixes."
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# Changelog for Python

## 1.0.6 — 25 May 2026

* Adds the `AdaptiveOcr` Vision engine — a heuristic-first PDF extraction pipeline with automatic OCR fallback for image-based pages.

* Adds a born-digital text fast path to VLM pipelines and enables VLM-only text output when OCR is disabled. (#2607)

* Adds direct PDF processing support to the Vision API for improved document analysis.

* Adds support for creating searchable PDFs.

* Adds form detection support.

* Improves licensing error information when `Document.open` fails because the input format requires a feature not enabled by the active license. (J#NAPY-4)

* Improves Vision data extraction fidelity.

* Fixes ARM64 Windows compatibility issues where the SDK failed with cryptic errors on ARM64 Windows machines. (J#NAPY-6)

* Fixes caption and footnote relationships being linked to incorrect element IDs. (#2615)

* Fixes `Document.open` to raise `FileNotFoundException` for missing files. (J#NAPY-1)

* Fixes a crash when running OCR on Linux. (J#NAT-458)

* Fixes the SDK version displayed in the license banner to match the installed wheel version. (J#NAPY-3)

* Improves Python SDK conversion, rendering, and extraction capabilities by incorporating enhancements from the [Nutrient.NET SDK 14.4.3](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/dotnet/changelog.md#14.4.3) release line.

## 1.0.5 — 8 May 2026

* Adds Markdown export format to Vision API content extraction, including options for semantic block formatting and header/footer inclusion. (J#NAT-347 and #2590)

* Adds a failure message when `VlmEnhancedIcr` isn’t configured correctly. (#2534)

* Improves `SdkSettings` accessors with property-style syntax and refines the Python API reference documentation. (J#NAT-441)

* Improves Vision API JSON export performance on large multipage documents. (#2499)

* Improves Python SDK conversion, rendering, and extraction capabilities by incorporating enhancements from the [Nutrient.NET SDK 14.4.2](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/dotnet/changelog.md#14.4.2) release line.

## 1.0.4 — 10 Apr 2026

* Adds compatibility with Python `>=3.8`.

* Improves Python SDK conversion, rendering, and extraction capabilities by incorporating enhancements from the [Nutrient.NET SDK 14.4.1 release line](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/dotnet/changelog.md#14.4.1).

* Improves handwriting vision capabilities by adding a new in-house model that better identifies handwritten regions in images.

## 1.0.3 — 6 Mar 2026

* Improves Python error handling and exception mapping for clearer, more specific runtime errors. (#2383)

* Improves stability and reliability in generated Python bindings. (#2383)

## 1.0.2 — 27 Feb 2026

* Fixes XLSX conversion and OCR memory usage issues as part of a coordinated.NET/Java/Python SDK release. (#2309)

* Improves the Vision API for intelligent content recognition (ICR) and fixes issues in the vision language model (VLM) pipeline. (#2309)

* Improves macOS distribution compatibility for package delivery. (#2309)

## 1.0.1 — 31 Jan 2026

* Adds the first public Python SDK release, with complete feature parity with [Nutrient Java SDK](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/java/changelog.md) (including Vision) and near parity with [Nutrient.NET SDK](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/dotnet/changelog.md). (#2211, #2221)

* Positions the SDK for rapid prototyping and as an entry point for complex document manipulation workflows. (#2211, #2221)

* Highlights new [Python guides](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/python.md) and the newly published [Python API reference](https://www.nutrient.io/api/python.md) as part of the release. (#2211, #2221)

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## Related pages

- [Python SDK sample downloads](/guides/python/downloads.md)
- [Python guides: Integrate our PDF SDK](/guides/python/intro.md)
- [Nutrient Python SDK](/guides/python.md)
- [Activating Nutrient Python SDK with a license key](/guides/python/license-activation.md)