Version 5.5.0, 2025-05-11

What's new

New Features (ENH)

• Add support for IndirectObject.iter (#3228) by @bryan-brancotte
• Allow filtering by font when removing text (#3216) by @samuelbradshaw

Bug Fixes (BUG)

• Add missing named destinations being ByteStringObjects (#3282) by @stefan6419846
• Get font information more reliably when removing text (#3252) by @samuelbradshaw
• T* 2D Translation consistent with PDF 1.7 Spec (#3250) by @hackowitz-af
• Add font stack to q/Q operations in layout mode (#3225) by @hackowitz-af
• Avoid completely hiding image loading issues like exceeding image size limits (#3221) by @stefan6419846
• Using compress_identical_objects on transformed content duplicates differing content (#3197) by @danio
• Consider BlackIs1 parameter for CCITTFaxDecode filter (#3196) by @stefan6419846

Robustness (ROB)

• Deal with insufficient cm matrix during text extraction (#3283) by @stefan6419846
• Allow merging when annotations miss D entry (#3281) by @stefan6419846
• Fix merging documents if there are no Dests (#3280) by @stefan6419846
• Fix crash on malformed action in outline (#3278) by @larsga
• Fix compression issues for removed images which might be None (#3246) by @stefan6419846
• Attempt to deal with non-rectangular FlateDecode streams (#3245) by @stefan6419846
• Handle some None values for broken PDF files (#3230) by @stefan6419846

Developer Experience (DEV)

• Multiple style improvements by @j-t-1
• Update ruff to 0.11.0 by @stefan6419846

Maintenance (MAINT)

• Conform ASCIIHexDecode implementation to specification (#3274) by @j-t-1
• Modify comments of filters that do not use decode_parms (#3260) by @j-t-1

Code Style (STY)

• Simplify warnings & debugging in layout mode text extraction (#3271) by @hackowitz-af
• Standardize mypy assert statements (#3276) by @j-t-1

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