v0.5.0 v1.15.0
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inboundemail/inboundAug 14, 2026 → Aug 17, 20264 days between releases
What's New
Adds selective OCR for scanned PDFs using PDFium and PP-OCRv6
New Features
- Selective OCR pipeline for scanned and mixed PDFs
- Adaptive fusion of native and extracted text
- Row boundary preservation
- Offline operation and model caching
- OCR pipeline exposed in Rust, Node, Python, and pdf2md
Improvements
- Pinned runtime and model caching for offline operation
- Recover credible PDFium text layers before OCR
- Exposes OCR pipeline through Rust, Node, Python, and pdf2md
Upgrade Notes
No upgrade path exists as the older release (dirsearch) and newer release (pdf-inspector) are separate tools; the newer release introduces an entirely new OCR capability.
The Two Releases
v0.5.0
dirsearch v0.5.0
Aug 14, 2026· 2 months ago
Introduces async scanning by default, Rust native backend, improved wordlists, new database report formats, and enhanced security.
Full release notesv1.15.0
1.15.0 — Selective OCR for scanned and mixed PDFs
Aug 17, 2026· 2 months ago
Introduces selective OCR capabilities for scanned and mixed PDFs using PDFium rendering and PP-OCRv6, enabling adaptive fusion of native and extracted text.
Full release notes