0.9.0 - 2021-06-22

This is a long-awaited release with some performance improvements and some breaking changes. See the changelog for details.

Added

@HiromuHota: Support spaCy v2.3. (#506)
@HiromuHota: Add HOCRDocPreprocessor and HocrVisualLinker to support hOCR as input file. (#476) (#519)
@YasushiMiyata: Add multiline Japanese strings support to fonduer.parser.visual_parser.hocr_visual_parser. (#534) (#542)
@YasushiMiyata: Add commit process immediately after add to fonduer.parser.Parser. (#494) (#544)

@HiromuHota: Renamed VisualLinker to PdfVisualParser, which assumes the followings: (#518)
- pdf_path should be a directory path, where PDF files exist, and cannot be a file path.
- The PDF file should have the same basename (os.path.basename) as the document. E.g., the PDF file should be either "123.pdf" or "123.PDF" for "123.html".
@HiromuHota: Changed Parser's signature as follows: (#518)
- Renamed vizlink to visual_parser.
- Removed pdf_path. Now this is required only by PdfVisualParser.
- Removed visual. Provide visual_parser if visual information is to be parsed.
@YasushiMiyata: Changed UDFRunner's and UDF's data commit process as follows: (#545)
- Removed add process on single-thread in _apply in UDFRunner.
- Added UDFRunner._add of y on multi-threads to Parser, Labeler and Featurizer.
- Removed y of document parsed result from out_queue in UDF.

@YasushiMiyata: Fix test code test_postgres.py::test_cand_gen_cascading_delete. (#538) (#539)
@HiromuHota: Process the tail text only after child elements. (#333) (#520)