Version 2.0.1 release ❄️

Welcome back!
After almost 1 year on hiatus, I'm back with this release.

• Fixed the "out of memory error", some users were having trouble with
• Removed automatic installation feature It never got out of alpha, because it was a pain to manager and not really useful
• Updated some dependencies
• Removed unused dependencies
• Removed some dead code
• Switched to webpack

Version 2.0.0 release 👻

Massive release with a lot of new awesome features 🎉:

• Switched from the JSON-file based approach to a local SQLite database, meaning your vault will no longer be cluttered with JSON files and related operations will be sped up
• Added some preliminary unit tests, will be extended in the future
• Switched to a new search algorithm, based on the Levenshtein algorithm
• Folders can now be ignored from being indexed by right-clicking them in the file view and selecting Ignore folder for OCR
• Files can now have specific OCR settings associated with them by right-clicking them in the file view and selecting Custom OCR settings
• OCRing can now be paused by clicking the progress bar
• Settings are now being validated on launch and changed when problems are detected
• ImageMagick is now optional and only required when OCRing PDFs
• Added the ability to copy the raw OCR text from files by right-clicking them in the file view and selecting Copy text to clipboard
• Some bug fixes here and there

⚠ When releasing such a massive update it is possible, even though I've tried everything thoroughly, that bugs and problems will appear. When discovering any, please let me know by opening an issue ⚠

Enjoy 🐃

Version 1.5.0 release 🐾

Larger release with some interesting new features:

• 🎉 Obsidian-OCR is now officially available from the community plugins 🎉
• Replaced pdf2pic with custom implementation, allowing for:
  • Fine-grain control over PDF conversion process
  • All running conversion processes are killed when closing Obsidian
  • Switch from graphicsmagick + ghostscript to simple imagemagick setup without any workarounds
• Added fine-grain settings
• Added first attempts at automated dependency installation.
  ⚠ This feature is in very early development and current only works on Windows and Deb-based Linux distributions. Will contain bugs. ⚠
• Updated installation instructions
• Added settings clarifications to README

Enjoy 😊

Version 1.4.1 release 🐠

Small(ish) release:

• Fixed flipped settings descriptions
• Added the ability to add additional paths to be searched for external dependencies in settings
• Some code cleanup

Version 1.4.0 release 🐱‍🐉

Medium-size release with some nice features:

• Added a progress bar when caching
• All remaining processes are now killed when exiting Obsidian
• Caching now happens in parallel
• Added a slider in the settings to adjust the concurrently running caching processes
• (Might be added back in later, we'll see) Removed the check if a PDF has at least one page.
  (This was removed because it was slowing down the indexing process quite a bit and usually nobody has a PDF with 0 pages in their vault)
• Reduced the time it takes for the settings Max OCR Processes and Max Caching Processes to take effect from 10 seconds to 5 seconds

Enjoy 😊

Version 1.3.2 release 🐱‍👤

Minor release with some small improvements:

• Fixed the Case sensitive option working backwards
• Removed the Idling status for the status bar to remove unnecessary clutter
• Fixed a problem where the progress bar was stuck at a higher number than was actually processed
• Added a workaround for users of Homebrew, causing Obsidian to not find the installed programs. Thanks, @esodesod

Version 1.3.1 release ⛲

This minor release contains some small quality of life improvements, including:

• Adjusted the range of concurrently running OCR tasks Thanks @evilgeniuschronicles
• Fuzzy search and Case sensitive settings in the search modal are now saved Thanks @evilgeniuschronicles
• After changing either Fuzzy search or Case sensitive, the search is rerun Thanks @evilgeniuschronicles
• The search now only starts after entering at least 3 characters
• Transcript files now have the suffix .ocr.json, making them easier to differentiate from other files
• When indexing files, you now have a progress bar

And many more…

Enjoy 😊

Version 1.3.0 release 🎁

After over 3 months of work I (and all other contributors, thanks guys ✨) present you Obsidian OCR version 1.3.0:

• Improved installation instructions thanks to @kphcs and @evilgeniuschronicles
• OCR providers are now modular, allowing you to easily add more.
• The search dialog now shows you a preview of the selected page
• Indexing results are now cached at startup, allowing for faster searching as your vault increases in size.
• You can now specify how many documents are OCRed at a time, preventing your PC from slowing down when OCRing a large amount of documents thanks to @evilgeniuschronicles
• General stability improvements
• General refactoring

Version 1.2.1 ⚡hotfix⚡

Quick hotfix:

• Fixed a spelling mistake that would cause Obsidian OCR to keep complaining about unmet dependencies, even though they were installed correctly

Version 1.2.0 release 🥧

Version 1.2.0 release notes:

• Obsidian OCR now checks at startup if you have the required dependencies installed
• When switching the OCR language in the settings, Obsidian OCR now asks you whether you want to remove the already created transcripts, forcing a reindexing in the new language
• Fixed a bug where the settings would duplicate after opening and closing the settings page
• Removed the empty entry in the OCR language dropdown
• Added documentation to all commonly used functions
• General code cleanup

Enjoy 😁