1.3.1
Fixed
Text recognition (OCR) now keeps German umlauts and ß, plus the accents of French, Spanish, Portuguese, Nordic, Polish, Czech, Turkish and other Latin-script languages.
Fixed
Text recognition no longer skips lines. With some fonts, up to a third of the lines on an ordinary scan went missing.
Improvement
Upside-down and sideways scans, phone photos, transparent PNG images and long screenshots are now read correctly.
Fixed
CSV files separated by semicolons or tabs (such as German Excel exports) now become proper tables, and no values are cut off.
Fixed
Email (.eml) and RTF files now convert to readable text instead of raw source code.
Fixed
Text files saved in older Windows encodings keep their special characters.
Fixed
Images saved next to the Markdown file now show up in VS Code, GitHub and Obsidian when the file name contains spaces.
Improvement
"Remember last used folder" now remembers the folder you last saved to.
1.3.0
New
Try Office2MD free. Every install now includes 10 free conversions with everything unlocked, text recognition included. No license key needed to get started.
New
Office2MD is now in the Microsoft Store, where it installs in one click and keeps itself up to date.
1.2.0
Fixed
Long scanned PDFs no longer time out.
New
See page-by-page progress while a scan is being read.
New
Documents where only some pages are scanned are now converted in full.
Improvement
Stop now ends the current file right away.
Fixed
A single damaged page no longer stops the rest of a PDF from converting.
Fixed
Your license key is no longer written to the log file.
Improvement
Clearer messages, plus smaller fixes for saving and settings.
1.1.0
Fixed
Large and long PDFs no longer time out.
New
Built-in OCR reads scanned PDFs and image files (PNG, JPG, and more) as text, completely offline.
New
Images inside documents and PDFs can be saved to a folder, embedded in the file, or removed.
New
Dark mode, with light, dark, or system options.
New
A Settings panel for your default output folder, image handling, and text recognition.
New
Convert several files at once for faster batches.
New
The changelog now opens inside the app, and updates show what is new before you install them.
Improvement
Clearer messages when a file is password-protected, scanned, corrupted, or unsupported.
Improvement
Added macro-enabled Office files (.docm, .pptm, .xlsm).
Tweaked
Settings now opens on the Settings tab and no longer resizes when you switch tabs.
1.0.2
Updated
Large files now have more time to convert, so big PDFs are less likely to time out.
Fixed
A stuck conversion now stops cleanly. Previously it could keep running silently in the background.
Tweaked
If a file takes too long to convert, the app now suggests splitting it into smaller parts.
New
A small loading screen appears while the app starts up, so the window no longer looks blank for a moment.
New
The Settings menu has a fresh look with quick links to support, documentation, and the changelog.
1.0.1
Updated
Upgraded markitdown engine to 0.1.5.
Tweaked
Clearer error message when a conversion produces no output.
1.0.0
New
Initial release.