Changelog

All notable changes to the Scribd Enhancer All-in-One project will be documented in this file.

[3.5.0] - 2025-12-16

✨ Features

• DOC Export: Added a "DOC" button to the Scraper Output. This exports the scraped content (text + images) into a .doc file compatible with Microsoft Word.
• Improved Print/PDF: Renamed the "Print" button to "Print / Save PDF" to clarify that you can use this to generate a high-quality, text-searchable PDF.

[3.4.0] - 2025-12-16

✨ Features (v3.4.0)

• Inline Image Scraping: The Scraper Output now natively displays images found on pages. It filters out small icons and only shows substantial content images (>150px).
• Improved Export: HTML Export now includes these images, making it a true "Rich Text" export.

[3.3.0] - 2025-12-16

✨ New UI (Pleasant Upgrade)

• Redesigned Interface: Switched from Glassmorphism to a cleaner, polished "Pleasant Dark" theme with soft blue gradients and rounded aesthetics.
• Smart Dragging: Fixed a bug where the menu wouldn't open if you clicked it too fast (drag detection was too aggressive). Now uses pixel-distance detection.
• Preview Box: Renamed to "Scraper Output / Reader" and is now hidden by default. It will pop up automatically when you click "Scrape".

[3.2.0] - 2025-12-16

✨ Added

• Glassmorphism UI: Completely redesigned the control panel with a modern, blurred, semi-transparent aesthetic.
• Toast Notifications: Replaced intrusive browser alerts (alert()) with a custom, non-blocking toast notification system at the top of the screen.
• Micro-animations: Added subtle hover effects and transitions to buttons and inputs for a premium feel.

🛠️ Fixed

• Code Optimization: Refactored DOM queries and event handlers for better performance.
• Styling: Improved Dark Mode consistency across the panel and preview window.

🔄 Changed

• Dependencies: Updated standard library references.
• Defaults: Tweaked default snapshot settings for better quality out-of-the-box.

[3.1.0] - Prior Version

Added

• External Downloader button integration.
• Rich HTML export with preference controls (Text vs Image layer).
• Snapshot PDF "pixel-perfect" mode.
• Collapsible Preview window with position memory.

### 📜 Changelog

**v3.1.0**

* Added **External Downloader** support — send current Scribd link to [scribd.vdownloaders.com](https://scribd.vdownloaders.com/) (customizable in settings)
* Added **Preview quick-hide** button and **P key** hotkey
* Preview position is now **draggable** and remembered between sessions
* New **Toggle Preview** button inside settings panel
* Auto-fills link field when visiting downloader page with `?url=` parameter
* UI polish & minor performance optimizations

**v3.0.1**

* Added **draggable, collapsible gear menu** with position memory
* Import/export settings for easy backup/restore
* Rich HTML export groundwork to fix overlapping text/image layers in future updates
* Improved scraping performance and UI responsiveness

**v3.0.0 & earlier**

* Unblur Scribd pages instantly
* Parallel scraping engine for faster text capture
* Integrated OCR with auto language detection
* Multiple export formats: TXT, HTML (Plain/Rich), Snapshot PDF
* Output splitting for large documents
* Dark mode and fully customizable settings

## 📜 Changelog – v3.0.1 (August 2025)

### 🚀 New Features

* **Draggable & Collapsible Gear Menu** – Can be moved anywhere on screen and collapsed when not in use
* **Menu Position Memory** – Saves menu position between page visits and sessions
* **Import/Export Settings** – One-click backup/restore of your personal configuration
* **Rich HTML Export Prep** – Added underlying support for a future fix to overlapping text/images in Rich HTML exports

### ⚡ Improvements

* **Performance Boost** – Optimized parallel scraping for smoother UI and faster completion times
* **UI Enhancements** – Cleaner, more compact floating menu with better responsiveness
* **Persistent Settings Expansion** – Now saves more feature states, including new menu and layout settings

### 🐞 Fixes

* Fixed menu not remembering toggle states in certain browsers
* Fixed rare issue where Auto Scrape didn’t trigger on very short documents

### 🔮 Upcoming

* Rich HTML **layer cleanup** to fix overlapping text and images in exports
* Page-range and keyword-based selective scraping
* Integrated OCR translation tools
* AI-powered OCR cleanup
* ZIP bundling of all export formats

### 📜 Changelog – Scribd Enhancer All-in-One

#### **v2.7.3 – Full Restoration & Upgrade Release**

**(Current)**

* ✅ Fully restored **OCR support** via Tesseract.js (with async page-based scanning)
* 🧠 Added **smart OCR filtering** to skip noise (logos, symbols, watermarks)
* 🌍 Introduced **language auto-detection** + **manual override**
* 📖 Switched to **parallel page scraping** (multi-page DOM scan at once = faster performance)
* 📄 Rebuilt **floating UI**:

* Gear icon with toggle menu
* Clearer labels & grouping
* Controls: Export TXT, Export HTML, Print to PDF, Split Output
* 🌑 Improved **dark mode** with better CSS injection and style override
* 📂 New: **Output splitting** support by page count (100, 250, 500+)
* 🧾 Enhanced **live preview** window with scrollable real-time content feedback
* 🧲 Cleaner **image loading** fallback for lazy-loaded Scribd pages
* 🔄 **Persistent settings** now stored via `localStorage`
* 🧹 Codebase cleaned and modularized — easier future patching
* 🐞 Fixed issues with:

* Blank pages not being scraped
* OCR not detecting image-based text
* Menu controls stacking or wrapping poorly

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#### **v2.3 – Stable Base Version**

* Initial OCR & scraping integration
* Unblur overlay removal
* Dark mode
* Text & image scan to preview
* Basic export buttons (TXT, HTML)

## 🧾 Changelog

### v2.3 – June 2025

* ✨ Added live preview panel (optional toggle in gear menu)
* 🧠 Integrated OCR via Tesseract.js to extract text from embedded images
* 📄 Added export options for `.txt` and `.html`
* ⚙️ Gear menu now includes **"Show Preview"** toggle
* 🛠 Improved lazy-loading image handling and unblur cleanup
* 🔄 Settings now persist reliably using `localStorage`
* 💄 UI and button style polish

### v2.2

* 🧠 First version with integrated OCR and preview output
* 🎨 Improved formatting, unblur cleanup, and printable view

### v2.0–v2.1

* 🚀 Major rewrite with scraping engine, gear UI, print support, dark mode, and persistent settings

## v2.0 – June 3, 2025
- ✅ Major Rewrite: Works on both `/document/` and `/read/` pages
- ✅ NEW: Scrapes `.text_layer`, `.page`, and `.reader_column` to maximize compatibility
- ✅ FIXED: Print-to-PDF now works even on canvas-based or obfuscated layouts
- ✅ UI: Always shows “Start Scraping Book” and “Print to PDF” buttons
- ✅ NEW: Improved floating toggle menu with persistent `localStorage` settings
- ✅ NEW: Dark Mode support added with theme-safe contrast
- 🧹 Cleanup: Removed broken direct download logic
- 📦 Ready for GreasyFork publishing

## v1.0–1.9 (Legacy)
- Initial release versions with blur bypass and broken download button
- Added floating gear icon and toggleable options
- Added basic printable view and partial scraping support