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Nouveautés

Ce qui a changé à chaque version de reader.me : nouveaux outils, nouvelles langues, correctifs.

Ces notes viennent directement du développement : elles ne sont publiées qu’en anglais.

  1. New toolv0.24.0

    New tool: scan to PDF

    • Photograph a document with your phone and get a proper PDF. It opens your normal camera app, which focuses and meters light far better than a video embedded in a web page.
    • Each photo is treated before assembly: grayscale, then the histogram of that particular image is stretched so the grey of the paper turns white and the ink settles into black. Grayscale, pure black & white and colour are all available.
    • Nothing is uploaded, and no app to install. The document you scan is usually exactly the kind you would rather not hand to a stranger.
  2. New toolv0.23.0

    New tool: redact a PDF

    • Drag over what should not be read and it is removed, not covered. A black rectangle drawn on top erases nothing — the text stays in the file and comes back with a copy and paste.
    • Marked pages are rebuilt as an image so nothing survives underneath, which means they lose selectable text and get heavier. Pages you do not mark are copied untouched. The tool says so before you process, not after.
    • The metadata of the result is cleared too: an author field or a subject line can repeat exactly what you just covered.
  3. New toolv0.22.0

    New tool: PDF metadata viewer

    • Every PDF records who made it, with which software and when — and carries it wherever the file goes. The new tool shows all of it and hands you a copy with the keys deleted, not blanked.
    • It also flags embedded JavaScript and actions that run when a file opens, which is what turns a document into an attack vector.
    • Like everything else here, the analysis runs in your browser. Uploading a document to find out what it reveals about you rather defeats the point.
  4. Improvedv0.21.0

    A public changelog, and an honest tool count

    • This page. It lists what changed in each release, newest first.
    • The site said "20 tools" while there were 21 — the image converter had been left out of the count since July, including in the comparison tables. Fixed everywhere, in all 28 languages.
    • Recently released tools now carry a "New" badge for their first 60 days.
  5. Fixedv0.20.2

    Convert to PDF/A works again

    • The PDF/A converter had been failing since June with an "unexpected error". Our own security headers were blocking the colour profile that the ISO 19005-2 standard requires, and the failure only ever showed up on the live site — never in testing.
    • Every tool is now tested against the live site, with the same security headers, so a break like this surfaces before you find it.
  6. Under the hoodv0.20.1

    Faster pages

    • Rebuilt on a newer version of our site framework. Pages are assembled about 40% faster, which shows up as quicker deploys of new content.
    • Every known security advisory in our dependencies is now cleared.
  7. Under the hoodv0.20.0

    New PDF and OCR engines

    • PDF rendering moves to PDF.js 6 and text recognition to Tesseract 7 — both are what actually read your files in the browser.
    • Ten unused libraries removed from the site. Less code to download, less to go wrong.
  8. New toolv0.18.0

    New tool: convert images

    • Convert between JPG, PNG and WebP, with SVG accepted as input. Like everything else here, it runs in your browser — the images never leave your device.
  9. Fixedv0.17.5

    Accessibility pass

    • Better contrast for secondary text in dark mode.
    • Links inside paragraphs are underlined again, so they do not rely on colour alone.
    • Back to a perfect accessibility score in automated audits.
  10. Improvedv0.16.0

    Sharing and link previews

    • Blog posts gained share buttons, including a shortcut to summarise a post with an AI assistant.
    • Links to the site now show a proper preview card when shared.
  11. Languagesv0.14.0

    Blog and glossary in every language

    • The blog and the PDF glossary are now published in all the languages the site supports, with localised URLs.
  12. Fixedv0.13.1

    A correction about encryption

    • The Protect tool encrypts with AES-128, not AES-256 as the page previously said. The tool did not change; the claim was wrong and is now accurate.
  13. Languagesv0.13.0

    Greek, Swedish and Bulgarian

    • Three more languages, bringing the site to 28.
  14. Languagesv0.11.0

    Catalan and Traditional Chinese

    • Two more languages, each with its own translated tool URLs.
  15. Improvedv0.10.0

    Tools menu in the header

    • Every tool is now one click away from any page, grouped by what it does.
  16. Fixedv0.9.2

    Language switcher fixed on iPhone

    • On Safari for iOS the language menu simply would not open. Rebuilt with plain buttons, which work everywhere.
  17. Appsv0.9.0

    Linux downloads and a security pass

    • Reader Split PDF is available for Linux, with an install guide.
    • A full security review of the site, with stricter headers and a monitor for vulnerabilities in the PDF engines.