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December 15, 2024

Lector, our open-source PDF viewer

Lector, our open-source PDF viewer

Rebuilt the PDF viewer from the ground up for significantly improved performance and reduced resource usage. This includes a new keyword search interface with much improved results highlighting.

You can now import hosted PDFs and YouTube videos by adding “anara.com” in front of URLs. For example visiting anara.comhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFwCGECvq4I will import this video into your library.

We added an empty state view to the chat window, displaying a summary of the item in view along with suggested prompts to get a conversation started.

Improvements

  • Overhauled our text editor indexing to improve response accuracy when chatting with Notes.
  • Website items now get automatically renamed to the title of the website being imported.

Fixes

  • PDFs imported via URL now display correctly in the UI.
  • Fixed a bug where, on importing youtube videos, shortened link versions or links with timestamps were not accepted.
  • Resolved an issue where the chat was sending multiple duplicate messages at once.
  • Fixed a bug where, in some rare cases, groups of documents were not showing in the left sidebar, only in the graph.
  • Document deletion now works properly for items that haven't completed processing.
  • Fixed a bug where document highlights were incorrectly persisted when switching between items in a group.
  • Restored functionality for ++ operations in the text editor when working with Notes in the sideview.
  • Fixed a bug where drag and dropping documents into an empty group was not working in some cases.
  • Improved page reference buttons to properly navigate to relevant content.
  • Users are now correctly redirected after deleting a chat view.
  • Improved scrolling behavior for website imports.

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