v0.1.6

SkyworkAI/SkyReels-V2v0.1.6May 26, 2026by afourney

AI Summary

A maintenance update for the document converter adding OCR capabilities for PDFs, fixing memory leaks in PDF conversion, and introducing an Azure Content Understanding converter.

Key Highlights

Added OCR layer service for embedded images and PDF scans
Fixed O(n) memory growth in PDF conversion
Added Azure Content Understanding converter
Improved handling of deeply nested HTML

New Features

OCR layer service for embedded images and PDFs
Azure Content Understanding converter
Fix for PDF conversion memory leak (page.close())
Deeply nested HTML recursion error handling

Full Release Notes

## What's Changed
* [MS] Add OCR layer service for embedded images and PDF scans by @lesyk in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1541
* Fix O(n) memory growth in PDF conversion by calling page.close() afte… by @lesyk in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1612
* Updated warning about binding to non-local interfaces. by @afourney in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1653
* fix: handle deeply nested HTML that triggers RecursionError by @jigangz in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1644
* Clarify security posture in READMEs by @afourney in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1807
* feat: Add Azure Content Understanding converter by @chienyuanchang in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1865
* Bump version to 0.1.6 by @afourney in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1914

## New Contributors
* @jigangz made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1644
* @chienyuanchang made their first contribution in https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/pull/1865

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/compare/v0.1.5...v0.1.6