Allow for newer requests versions.

This is a maintenance release which fixes a regression in the package dependencies introduced in 2.5.1.

• merged #91 to allow for newer requests versions.

Python 3.13 support

• added Python 3.13 to the build pipeline.
• deprecated Python 3.8.
• updated dependencies.
• minor optimizations in the attribute handling.

Custom HTML Handling and HTML engine improvements

• add working support for specifying custom html tags (fixes #81)
• improved html_engine.py
• improved typing across all modules
• added unittests for
  • inscript
  • inscriptis-api
• documentation update

Fix documentation build and update publish script.

• fix building documentation on readthedocs.org
• update publish script

Code cleanup, improved Web service and distribution

• added official Python 3.12 support
• Inscriptis command line client
  • renamed inscript.py to inscript and install client via pip
  • added --timeout argument.
• Inscriptis Web service:
  • migrate the Web service to FastAPI and uvicorn
  • enable install as an extra using pip install inscriptis[web-service]
• code cleanup
• migrate to pyproject.toml and poetry for package distribution
• use black for code formatting
• improved tox config and code checks

Official Python 3.11 support

Maintenance release adding Python 3.11 to the build pipeline.

Fixed handling of invalid length specifications

This is a bugfix release correcting the handling of invalid length specifications (bug #63).

Correct handling of tail text in HTML comments

• fix: correctly handle HTML comments used to confuse HTML to text conversion (fixes #45).
• fix: updated unittests to correctly work with lxml in Ubuntu 22.04.
• add: updated and extended flake8 testing.

Support for custom HTML table separators and Python 3.10

• support custom HTML tables separators (addresses #29).
• extended documentation on the command line client and added a link to the JOSS paper on inscriptis.
• officially support Python 3.10 and add it to the build pipeline.
• fixed dependency resolution for tox builds.

Zenodo DOI and integrated feedback obtained through the Journal of Open Source Software review process

• improved documentation based on feedback provided by @reality, @rlskoeser and @sbenthall as part of the Journal of Open Source Software review process.
• the Inscriptis web service has been included into the Python package and can now be started with

   export FLASK_APP="inscriptis.service.web"
   python3 -m flask run