CHANGELOG

Changelog

v0.5.9 (2024-11-10)

• All: Add Chinese translation. Thanks, @mofazhe! (#661)
• All: Add Portuguese translation. Thanks, ssantos!
• Windows: Add portable package. Thanks, @mofazhe! (#660, #671)
• macOS: Drop support for macOS 12 (end of life).

v0.5.8 (2024-05-19)

• Linux: Next try to fix issue on Ubuntu/Unity where the window doesn't show up. (#651)

v0.5.7 (2024-05-18)

• All: Add french translation. Thanks, @NathanBnm! (#648)
• Linux: Fix crash on wayland in case of user's home directory contains special character. Thanks, @supersonictw! (#643)
• Linux: Fix issue on Ubuntu/Unity where the window doesn't show up. (#651)

v0.5.6 (2024-05-08)

• All: Fix minor typos in translations. (#641)
• Linux: Fix clipboard on Wayland desktops other than GNOME. (#640)

v0.5.5 (2024-05-07)

• All: Add ukrainian translation. Thanks, @thevllad! (#625)
• All: Add russian translation. Thanks, @ViktorOn! (#611)
• All: Add italian translation. Thanks, @albanobattistella! (#622)
• All: Add spanish translation. Thanks, @haggen88! (#614)
• All: Add brazilian translation. Thanks, @NameLessGO! (#632)
• Linux: Add xsel as another clipboard handler. Try --clipboard-handler xsel if Normcap's result isn't copied to the clipboard correctly.
• Linux: Fix clipboard on Gnome 46 + Wayland. (#620)
• Linux: Auto-remove screenshot file from pictures-directory on Wayland. Thanks, @PavelDobCZ23! (#600)
• Linux: Fix grim being tried for screenshots on non-compatible compositors.
• MacOS: Fix crash on start. (#584)
• MacOS: Add automated build for M1. (#636)

v0.5.4 (2024-01-15)

• All: Fix duplicate capture window if started twice (#580)
• Linux: Improve robustness of window positioning on Wayland.
• Linux: Improve debug output regarding clipboard methods. (#581)

v0.5.3 (2024-01-04)

• All: Add CLI argument for selecting clipboard handler (mainly intended for debugging).
• Linux: Revert clipboard handling to use Qt on Xorg, wl-clipboard on Wayland, and xclip only on AwesomeWM and Gnome 45. (#581)

v0.5.2 (2023-12-12)

• All: Fix normcap entry point to non-existing function.

v0.5.1 (2023-12-12)

• All: Fix accidentally removed normcap entry point for Python package.

v0.5.0 (2023-12-12)

• All: Add Swedish localization. Thanks, @eson57! (#599)
• All: Fix issue where introduction window was still visible on the screen capture UI. (#536 comment)
• All: Fix missing line breaks in "raw"-mode (#502 comment)
• All: Improve line breaks for paragraphs detected in "parse"-mode (#502)
• All: Add verification of top level domains to reduce false positive URL detections in "parse"-mode.
• All: Add cleansing of some UTF-8 chars in "parse"-mode, e.g. „ and “ will be replaced by ". (You can still use "raw"-mode to leave them intact.)
• Windows, macOS: Fix notifications not clickable in "raw"-Mode. (#438 comment)
• Linux: Fig segfault in AppImage. (#543)
• Linux: Fix incorrect selection when display scaling is active. (#397)
• Linux: Add support for using xclip to copy result to clipboard. This seems more stable on Wayland systems than wl-clipboard, at least until compatibility with latest Gnome updates is restored.

v0.5.0beta1 (2023-10-08)

• All: Add support for localization of the NormCap UI. Available translations so far:
  • German
• All: Add introduction on startup. (#443)
• All: Add explanatory tooltips to many menu entries.
• All: Fix wrong detection of some special characters.
• All: Fix crash caused by update checker.
• All: Improve startup and recognition speed slightly.
• Windows & macOS: Add click action to desktop notifications. If a notification is clicked, the (last) result is opened in an appropriate application. E.g. if a URL was detected, it is opened in the default browser. If plain text was detected, it is saved as temporary text file, which is opened in the default text editor. (#438)
• Windows: Change installation path from ..\dynobo\NormCap to simpler ..\NormCap
• Linux: Fix NormCap to work with Sway DE. (#485)
• Linux: Fix multi monitor setups with Wayland causing unnecessary timeouts. (#494)
• Linux: Fix crash due to missing xcb-utils-cursor in AppImage, by including it. (#457)
• Linux: Add support for hyprland display manager. Currently, requires grim for taking screenshots. (#375)
• Linux: On Wayland, improve handling of missing screenshot permission. (#533)
• macOS: Improve UX in case of missing screenshot permission.

v0.4.4 (2023-06-04)

• All: Fix regression causing exit through system tray not working. (#458)

v0.4.3 (2023-06-03)

• All: Add command line flag --background-mode to start normcap minimized. (#439)
• macOS: Improve dialog that is shown in case screenshot permissions are missing.
• Windows: Fix upgrading with msi-installer might lead to error on startup. (#452)
• Windows: Upgrading with msi-installer should not remove downloaded languages in future versions anymore.

v0.4.2 (2023-05-21)

• Fix quotes in detected text can result in wrong detection. (#446)
• Update AppImage base image from Ubuntu 18.04 (deprected) to 20.04.

v0.4.1 (2023-05-01)

• Enlarge settings button a bit to make it easier to spot. (#254)
• Prevent running multiple instances and start capture in original instance instead. (#306)
• Fix unintended re-capture if tray icon is disabled. (#254)
• Fix occasional crashes after use of Language Manager.
• Add experimental --cli-mode switch to print NormCap's detection to STDOUT and exit immediately. This is useful if you want to use the detected text as input for other programs or commands. E.g.:

  normcap --cli-mode | xargs -I {} firefox "http://duckduckgo.com/?q={}"`

v0.4.0 (2023-01-29)

• All: Remove support for Tesseract < 5.0.
• All: Faster startup if "Check for updates" is enabled.
• All: Refactor icon handling. Fixes a bug in the AUR package. (#353)
• All: Fix crash if tesseract data for English is missing. (#353)
• Linux: Fix FlatPak crashes due to missing permissions (#320).
• Prebuilt packages: Add UI for downloading additional languages.
• Prebuilt packages: Remove all default languages except English to reduce size.
• Prebuilt packages (Windows): Switch to different tesseract binaries, which should work more reliable across systems. Unfortunately, it also enlarges the file size a lot. Would be great to get your feedback on this! (#254)

v0.3.15 (2022-11-20)

• All: Add possibility to capture by left-clicking (or double-clicking) the tray icon. This also improves a bit the situation regarding #306.
• All: Fix bug when running with Python 3.11 #311.
• Windows: Improve the msi-installer by doing a clean uninstallation that removes also log-folder and tessdata folder.

v0.3.14 (2022-10-30)

• All: Add --version command line flag to easily print NormCap version.
• All: Slightly improved startup time.
• Windows: Debug information can be printed on screen again. (No need for checking the log file anymore.)
• Linux: Fix FlatPak crashing when gtk3-nocsd is enabled, e.g. in Unity DE (#190).
• Linux: Fix full screen view in Unity DE (#190).
• Linux: Fix failing notifications if detected text starts with certain characters.

v0.3.13 (2022-10-19)

• All: Reduce interval for (optional) update check to 7 days instead on every run to saves startup-time.
• macOS: Check for required screen recording permissions and warn if missing.
• macOS: Fix issue where NormCap process keeps running in background after exit.
• macOS: Work around failing screen recording permissions after installation of new NormCap version by resetting the permissions with every new NormCap version.

v0.3.12 (2022-09-15)

• All: Change color of tray icon on successful copy to clipboard to improve usability in case the notifications are turned off or not working.
• All: Update dependencies.
• Linux: Fix multi monitor support on Wayland.

v0.3.11 (2022-09-04)

• All: Improve removal of superfluous spaces in some eastern languages (#158).
• Linux: Fix notification issues on some KDE distros (#260). Thx, @OLoKo64.

v0.3.10 (2022-09-03)

• All: Ensure backwards compatibility for Pillow < 9.2.0 (#255).
• Linux: Option to add additional languages to FlatPak (#239). Experimental, might not yet work!

v0.3.9 (2022-08-28)

• All: Make update check more robust.
• Windows: Fix copy to clipboard (#250).
• Windows: Write log files for debugging (see FAQs).
• macOS: Use pbcopy for more reliable copy to clipboard.
• Linux: Fix notifications not showing up in prebuilt packages on some systems.

v0.3.8 (2022-08-21)

• All: Further reduced file size of prebuilt packages (#238). Thx, @thecoder-001
• Linux: Fix clipboard issues on Wayland by using wl-clipboard. (#237)
• macOS: Indicate build architecture in filename (M1 is not supported!); Also add to FAQs (#242).

v0.3.7 (2022-08-03)

• Linux: Fix TypeError crash during detection of appropriate screenshot method (#235)

v0.3.6 (2022-08-01)

• All: Hide UI while processing. Useful for larger sections of text or slower machines, where processing can take a while.
• All: Delay exit in case notification=on and tray=off to ensure notification is shown.
• Linux: Latest NormCap is now always available on FlatHub (#147, #225). Thx, @Tim453.

v0.3.5 (2022-07-27)

• All: Reduce the file size of prebuilt packages.
• Windows: Fix bug causing a 5 seconds delay during recognition #218.
• Docu: Add Python version required for installing package from PyPi #221.

v0.3.4 (2022-03-31)

• All: Various speed improvements.
• All: Smaller size by updating to PySide 6.3 without add-ons.
• Linux: Avoid crash on denied screenshot on Wayland.
• Docu: In README, complement dependencies for installing pip package. Thx, @thecoder-001 & @faveoled.
• Docu: Fix broken link in website Thx, @LGro.

v0.3.3 (2022-03-25)

• All: Fixes screenshots not updated when capturing from tray menu #181.

v0.3.2 (2022-03-23)

• macOS: Fixed crash in prebuilt DMG package #199.

v0.3.1 (2022-03-20)

• All: Fix pasting to clipboard sometimes not working

v0.3.0 (2022-03-20)

• All: Removed CLI options -v, --verbose and -V, --very-verbose in favor of the new -v, --verbosity which accepts on of the options: {error, warning, info, debug}.
• All: Update to PySide6 (Qt6) and Python 3.9
• All: Add support for Tesseract 5 with better OCR #170
• All: Improve image processing for better detection accuracy, especially for bright text on dark backgrounds.
• Prebuilt packages: Switched to shipping "fast" language models to reduce package size.
• Linux: Add support for Gnome Shell 41+ (using Screenshot Portal) #153 #157
• Linux: Fix issues with transparency / black window #154 #155
• Linux: Fix crash on non Gnome Shell systems #168
• macOS: Full screen border and selection #119

v0.2.10 (2021-12-27)

• All: Fix language settings not working if only a single language is selected
• macOS: Fix crash at start of prebuilt package due to missing dependency

v0.2.9 (2021-12-26)

• All: Mitigate superfluous spaces in Chinese languages #158
• Linux: Fix OCR not working on Gnome 41+ by using the official screenshot API #159

v0.2.8 (2021-10-20)

• Linux: Fix language option in settings.conf not human-readable #143
• Prebuilt packages: On Windows the MSI-installer will now upgrade existing versions #148

v0.2.7 (2021-09-25)

• Fixed NormCap error in case of disabled notifications #142

v0.2.6 (2021-08-27)

Breaking changes:

• All: NormCap settings will be reset on upgrade (due to changes in the settings system)!
• Prebuilt packages: A different set of languages is shipped! jpn, jpn_vert & fra got removed, but you can now add them yourself (Settings → "open data folder")

Other changes:

• All: Use native settings storage
• All: Improve settings menu in case of many languages
• All: Slightly better performance
• Prebuilt packages: Allow extending with additional languages #137 #127 #104
• macOS: Fix missing libpng in package #128
• Linux: Fix AttributeError: 'MainWindow' object has no attribute 'macos_border_window' #139 #138
• Windows: Fix update check

v0.2.5 (2021-08-07)

• Linux: Fix disappearing menu bar on gnome #121
• macOS: Fix update checking
• macOS: Draw border above menubar & dock #119 (just cosmetic, both are still not selectable)
• All: Slightly better performance
• All: More useful error message for issues with QT
• All: Application can now be cancelled via <ctrl>+c in terminal
• All: Removed switching modes via <space>-key. Use the menu instead.

v0.2.4 (2021-07-29)

• All: Improve robustness of settings
• Prebuilt packages: Add languages jpn and jpn_vert
• macOS: Fix bug that prevented the selection of a region
• macOS: Catch ImportError of urllib in case update check is enabled

v0.2.3 (2021-07-16)

• Fix styling issues with settings menu

v0.2.2 (2021-07-15)

• Bug fixes related to update checking
• Small UI improvements

v0.2.1 (2021-07-13)

• Add settings menu
• Add check for updates on startup (experimental, needs opt-in)

v0.2.0 (2021-06-23)

• (Almost) complete rewrite of NormCap (things might be different!)
• Provide easy to use binary package releases
• Better support for HiDPI and multi monitor setups
• Switch from Tk to Qt as UI Framework
• System tray support (experimental)

v0.1.11 (2021-04-04)

• Switch to pyclip library for clipboard handling
• Try a fix for macOS dummy window issue

v0.1.10 (2021-03-20)

• Handle missing system dependencies for the notification more gracefully
• Update versions of python package dependencies

v0.1.9 (2020-12-06)

• Add installer for MS Windows to enable notification management
• Fix crash caused by missing notification icon in certain setups

v0.1.8 (2020-11-17)

• Removed experimental tray icon support introduced in v0.1.7 (has caused unexpected issues).

v0.1.7 (2020-11-14)

• Switch method to show full-screen Windows to fix Issue #88
• Introduce preview of Tray Icon support. It is not stable yet, but you can test it using the new --tray command line switch.

v0.1.6 (2020-11-01)

• Implements Issue #27: Show system notification after OCR completed.

v0.1.5 (2020-10-31)

• Fixes Issue #81: Unhandled exception when user selected no region
• Related to the one above: Skip OCR if selected area is tiny (below 25 square pixels)
• Updates dependencies which also now get pinned
• Move away from pipenv, using plain setuptools and requirements.txt's instead.

v0.1.4 (2020-04-25)

• Add fallback for Wayland DE on Linux, see Issue 76

v0.1.3 (2020-04-04)

• Use the development version of PyInstaller for building Windows binaries to get the not yet released bugfix

v0.1.2 (2020-03-31)

• Update Bleach Package to avoid potential vulnerability
• Switched to standard tesseract train-data for Windows
• Improve performance by skipping unnecessary tests

v0.1.1 (2020-01-17)

• Update PyInstaller to avoid potential vulnerability

v0.1.0 (2019-12-23)

• Publishing to PyPi
• Add paragraph magic
• Adjust color

v0.0.15 (2019-12-13)

• Switched to simple semantic versioning
• Prepared for publishing to PyPi

v0.1a1 (2019-12-09)

• Switched to faster tesseract bindings
• Windows build now includes tesseract
• Automated build workflow

v0.1a0 (2019-09-17)

Please help to test and provide feedback!

Any feedback is useful, whether you find bugs or everything works for you. Thank you!

• Initial working release
• Multi-monitor support
• Support Linux, Windows, Mac
• Add Magics for
  • Single Lines (unformatted text)
  • Email addresses
  • URLs.