Changelog for Python

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(opens in a new tab) release line.

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(opens in a new tab) release line.

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(opens in a new tab).

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

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

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

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)

Adds the first public Python SDK release, with complete feature parity with Nutrient Java SDK(opens in a new tab) (including Vision) and near parity with Nutrient .NET SDK(opens in a new tab). (#2211, #2221)

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

Highlights new Python guides(opens in a new tab) and the newly published Python API reference(opens in a new tab) as part of the release. (#2211, #2221)