Layout Parser v0.2.0 Release Notes

New Features

1. Support for loading and exporting the layout data injson andcsv , see#6
2. Add support forunion andintersect operations, see#20 and thedetailed explanation

Improvements

1. Functional improvements:

   1. When loading Layout Parser official models,Detectron2LayoutModel can automatically detect the label_map, . For example,

      model=lp.Detectron2LayoutModel("lp://HJDataset/faster_rcnn_R_50_FPN_3x/config")model.label_map# {1: 'Page Frame', ... }

   2. Detectron2LayoutModel now supports theenforce_cpu flag that enforces using cpu even when CUDA devices are available.

   3. Forvisualization.draw_box, it now supports ashow_element_type flag that shows the bbox category name on the top left corner of the layout objects.

2. Improve installation command and documentation, especially for installing Detectron2 on Windows platforms#25

New Models

1. Add the table bank detection models that can identify table regions

Fixes

1. Fix the incorrectlayout issue mentioned in#9 - Thanks to@remidbs.
2. Fix the some of the dependency issues mentioned in#11 and#13 by usingiopath instead offvcore. See#18, Thanks to@edisongustavo.