🚀 Text inside scanned PDFs and images is now searchable — and readable by AI💡 Tips: Linkly AI has upgraded its text-recognition (OCR) engine. Scanned PDFs and images are now recognized page by page and restored into Markdown. Scanned PDFs already in your library will be re-parsed automatically.🚀 New Features:
- Added text recognition (OCR) for scanned PDFs and images: powered by the new PP-OCRv6 engine, with substantially improved accuracy for Chinese / Japanese / English. Scanned files are restored into structured content with headings and tables, and can be exported as Markdown.
- The built-in Chatbot can now reference cloud libraries: mention a linked cloud library with @ and search it just like a local one.
- Added library titles: a library can have a real title and description, shown consistently across Settings, the Launcher, and the Chatbot.
- The Launcher now supports sorting by time: on top of the existing filters, results can be sorted by time.
- A desktop shortcut is now created automatically once onboarding completes (and removed on uninstall on Windows).
- Added index size compression: after upgrading, the index is compressed automatically to reduce disk usage — shrinking the index by up to 80%.
⚡ Improvements:
- Optimized how heavy compute tasks (OCR, speech transcription, embedding) use resources, avoiding the lag and out-of-memory issues caused by running them in parallel.
- Improved image and PDF extraction for more stable parsing.
- “Rebuild index” is now only allowed while background long-running tasks are idle, to avoid interference.
🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Fixed issues where certain models (such as Kimi) could produce repeated answers, lose the previous turn’s content, or call tools twice in the Chatbot; when a conversation is interrupted, the reason is now shown clearly.
- Fixed several cases where scanned PDFs and images were not recognized, or were recognized incompletely.
- Improved the stability of index upgrades and database migrations, fixing a case where fields required by new features could be missing on certain upgrade paths.
