Changelog

✨ v1.6.0

• New: A new Prompt Library
• Natively support local AI models via Ollama
• Allow setting number of parallel indexing tasks (default: 5)
• Support custom user instruction
• Added support for Groq
• Added "Enter to send message" option
• Allow toggling the Document Viewer
• Improved rendering performance

v1.5.0

This release integrates with GPT 4 Vision and supports more AI service providers, including Local LLM Inference Server.

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• New: Supports more AI service providers: Mistral AI, Perplexity and Together AI
• New: Supports custom OpenAI-compatible servers: OpenAI proxy, LocalAI and LM Studio Inference Server...
• New: Incorporates ShotSolve into PDF Pals: take a screenshot of your PDF and ask AI about it
• New: Switch to the new embedding model `text-embedding-3`: better & cheaper
• New: Added support for the new GPT 4 Turbo model (`gpt-4-0125-preview`)
• New: Allow searching within the current chat
• Fix: Fixed the bug where the Upgrade window keeps showing

v1.4.0

Biggest release since launch: 9 new major features and significant performance improvement.

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• New: Support text-to-speech and speech-to-text using OpenAI API. Your fingers will thank you.
• New: PDF search & better navigation
• New: Workspace (Conversation) Switcher. Quickly switch between conversations
• New: Prompt with highlighted text & PDF page content
• New: Export chat to HTML, Markdown or JSON (compatible with OpenAI’s finetuning format)
• New: Better chat management. You can reset the chat context, delete all messages…
• New: Custom font & theme for code blocks
• New: Support advantaged paramters like context limit, temperature, presence penalty, frequent penalty...
• New: The markdown renderer has been rebuilt from scratch. It significantly improved the scroll performance now!
• Other quality-of-life improvements:
  • Filter conversation by title
  • Support multiline copy
  • Code highlighting during streaming
  • Responsive copy button
  • Automatically scroll to bottom on AI response
  • Improved message edit dialog
  • Fixed issue with OpenRouter model list

v1.3.0

IMPORTANT: this release temporarily removes the ability to customize System Instruction (read more below)

• Improved the accuracy of page references
• Improved AI responses: you can ask PDF Pals about a specific page. For example: "Summarize the content of page 12"
• Improvement: You can continue to ask questions while new documents are being indexed
• Improvement: You can remove a document from a multi-doc chat now

v1.2.3

This is a minor release to fix the indexing issue with multi-doc chat

• Fixed the issue where PDF Pals might not be able to find relevant content from newly added documents
• Fixed the issue where Page References might be incorrect in multi-doc chats
• Added the option to Save message to file
• Added the option to close Welcome Window automatically
• Improvement: re-open the Welcome Window from Dock icon or app menubar

v1.2.2

IMPORTANT: This release added the Indexing Strategy option to improve the accuracy of AI answers. Please read the full release note to configure yours.

• Indexing Strategy: choose how to process your documents: smart, fast or accurate
• App Appearance: customize your app's color scheme, font family, text size & paragraph spacing
• Better keyboard support: use PDF Pals faster with these new keyboard shortcuts
• Support more AI models available in OpenRouter: Phind, Mistral...
• Other improvements

v1.2

IMPORTANT: this releases updates the default System Instruction. If you're using a custom prompt, please reset to the new default value.

• Better chat management: you can now Edit / Branch / Regenerate / Delete messages
• Allow reprocessing a PDF, including the option to force using OCR
• Improve scanned PDF detection
• Improve default System Instruction
• Fixed the issue where sometimes AI was unable to answer user's questions

v1.1

• Chat with multiple PDFs 🎉
• Highlight relevant paragraph in the PDF Viewer when clicking on the referenced page
• Added support for Azure OpenAI & OpenRouter
• You can customize the system instruction template now
• Added the ability to customize OpenAI API host & Organization ID
• Added previous GPT models (gpt-3.5-turbo-0301 etc.)
• Better drag & drop support
  
  • Drag & drop into the Welcome Window to start a new chat.
  • Drag & drop documents into a Chat Window to add to the conversation
• You can delete a conversation from the Welcome Window now
• Web Browsers Integration (Experimental): Added the ability to open a PDF url in browser with PDF Pals using a shortcut key. Read set up guide

v1.0

• Chat with a single PDF (chatting with multiple PDFs coming soon)
• Each answer includes referenced pages from the source PDF
• Accepts PDFs in any language. You can change the output language anytime during the conversation.
• Supports scanned PDFs and complex forms using a powerful OCR engine.
• Automatically redacts sensitive data from your PDF such as credit card numbers or monetary amounts etc.
• Maximum flexibility: you can switch GPT models and adjust the temperature anytime during the conversation
• Supports Markdown and Code Syntax
• Supports LaTeX and Math Expressions
• Secure: your OpenAI API key is stored in the standard Apple Keychain. Your PDFs stay in your local machine. No uploading required.