textify 0.5.4

A cross-platform Flutter package that extracts text from clean digital images using standard fonts, run offline with no external dependencies.

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

0.5.4 - 2026-05-01

Changed

• Improved OCR accuracy for all test images (now 100% on all reference assets and generated images)
• Major refactor of post-processing pipeline for better modularity and maintainability
• Updated test suite and evaluation harness for stricter correctness and coverage
• Improved handling of punctuation, numbers, and mixed-case text
• Fixed edge cases in band splitting and artifact merging
• Updated English dictionary and normalization logic

0.5.3 (unpublished)

Note: Version 0.5.3 was never published to pub.dev.

• Split tests into two runs "No English dictionary" and "with English dictionary"

0.5.2 : 2026-02-06

Changed

• Quiet OCR eval output by default; keep verbose output when explicitly requested.
• Documentation and comment accuracy updates across the project.

0.5.1 : 2026-02-05

Changed

• Replace magic numbers with named constants across core OCR components for clarity and maintainability.
• Added fcheck to the verification process.

0.5.0 : 2025-12-27

Breaking Changes

• Refactored Textify class to use TextifyConfig exclusively for configuration
• Removed deprecated setters from Textify class: applyDictionary, excludeLongLines, dilatingSize, and innerSplit. Use TextifyConfig instead when creating Textify instances.

Updated

• sdk: ^3.10.0
• flutter: ">=3.38.5"
• Use the GLAD tool to generate the Layer Diagram

0.4.7 : 2025-10-16

Changed

• Fix LINT warnings

0.4.6 : 2025-10-16

Updated

• Dart: 3.9.2
• Flutter: 3.35.6

Changed

• remove all "this."
• deprecated ".scale()"

0.4.5 : 2025-07-03

Updated

• Dart: 3.8.1
• Flutter: 3.32.0
• flutter_lints: ^6.0.0

0.4.4 : 2025-04-22

Updated

• add more English words
• Example: update package [pasteboard: ^0.4.0]

0.4.3 : 2025-04-07

Added

• more API Documentation, PANA is now reporting 100% documentation coverage.

0.4.2 : 2025-04-06

Added

• Example: Popup shoing detail of artifact
• 100% code coverage form tests

Changed

• Improve character matching by matrix splitting when character matching score is low

0.4.1 : 2025-04-05

Changed

• Improvement text matchings, now using average score of all templates fonts
• Code Coverage 99.3%
• Doc comments

0.4.0 : 2025-04-04

Added

• Support for connected characters

Changed

• Performance improvements
• Increased code coverage to 99.1%

0.3.4 : 2025-01-14

Added

• 300 more English words to dictionary

Fixed

• Dashboard "Apply Dictionary" functionality

0.3.3 : 2025-01-13

Added

• New examples : "Simplified" and "Dashboard"

0.3.2 : 2025-01-09

Changed

• Improved API documentation and comments in correction.dart

0.3.1 : 2025-01-09

Changed

• Updated README.md to show examples of good clean vs problematic text in input images
• Improved example using the sample of "Good Clean Image"

0.3.0 : 2025-01-07

Added

• Optional operation mode of AutoCorrection using English Dictionary and AutoCassing of words

Changed

• Updated minimum SDK requirements : >=3.6.0, flutter : >=3.27.0

0.2.0 : 2024-12-16

Changed

• Adjusted band tolerance to 50% (was 80%)
• Adjusted word gap to 50% (was 75%)
• Adjusted gray scale to 190 (was 128)

0.1.9 : 2024-12-15

Added

• Unit test for converting PNG image to text

0.1.8 : 2024-12-15

Changed

• Updated README.md
• Updated documentation in band.dart and matrix.dart

0.1.7 : 2024-12-14

Changed

• Fixed deprecated warning for Flutter 3.27.0
• Updated packages

0.1.6 : 2024-10-13

Changed

• Improved Band assignment of artifacts
• Major refactoring

0.1.5 : 2024-10-12

Changed

• Updated Matrices.json to achieve 100% match for the 4 fonts at size 40
• Refactored and cleaned up code

0.1.4 : 2024-10-10

Changed

• Removed image_pipeline.dart
• Renamed "Encloser" to "Enclosure"

0.1.3 : 2024-10-09

Changed

• Updated README.md
• Updated Example/Dashboard

Fixed

• Fixed enclosure count for 'R'

0.1.2 : 2024-10-08

Added

• Support for characters : ! @ # & * - + = { } [ ] < > ?

0.1.1 : 2024-10-06

Changed

• Used embedded fonts for generating template [Arial, Courier, Helvetica, Times New Roman]

0.1.0 : 2024-10-03

Changed

• Removed unused functions
• Made functions private
• Documented code

0.0.9 : 2024-10-02

Changed

• Refactored to handle Bands and detect spaces

0.0.8 : 2024-10-01

Added

• Documented public API - Artifact, Band, CharacterDefinitions

0.0.7 : 2024-10-01

Added

• Support for characters : $ ; \

Changed

• Refactored to enable better editing of templates

0.0.6 : 2024-10-01

Added

• Documented Matrix.dart

Changed

• Performance improvement : avoid scoring the Artifact for space " "

Fixed

• Bug in the Example:Edit Screen

0.0.5 : 2024-09-30

Added

• New top-level API "String getTextFromImage(IMAGE)"

Changed

• Ran dart format .

0.0.4 : 2024-09-30

Added

• Linked package to GitHub repo : https://github.com/vteam-com/textify

0.0.3 : 2024-09-30

Changed

• Updated README.md

0.0.2 : 2024-09-30

Added

• Support for characters-allowed

Changed

• Updated Example - When pasting, just show the resulting text

Fixed

• Fixed many typos

0.0.1 : 2024-09-23

Added

• Initial implementation