TLDR-473 make BBox class Serializable

CHANGELOG.md

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 Changelog
 =========
 
+v0.3.4 (2023-09-28)
+-------------------
+* Make `BBox` class `Serializable`
+
 v0.3.3 (2023-09-28)
 -------------------
 * Update `BBox` class

VERSION

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-0.3.3
+0.3.4

dedocutils/data_structures/bbox.py

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 import numpy as np
 
+from dedocutils.data_structures.serializable import Serializable
+
 
 @dataclass
-class BBox:
+class BBox(Serializable):
     """
     Bounding box around some page object, the coordinate system starts from top left corner.
     """

dedocutils/data_structures/serializable.py

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+from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
+
+
+class Serializable(ABC):
+    """
+    Base class for the serializable objects which we need convert to dict.
+    """
+    @abstractmethod
+    def to_dict(self) -> dict:
+        """
+        Convert class data into dictionary representation.
+        Dictionary key should be string and dictionary value should be json serializable.
+
+        :return: dict with all class data.
+        """
+        pass