OpenReader

✨ What’s New

🐳 Document previews fixed in Docker

• Fixed document preview/thumbnail generation in Docker deployments, which had stopped working because the PDF engine couldn’t find its bundled fonts at runtime. Previews now render again out of the box.

⬆️ Smoother, more reliable uploads

• Rebuilt the document upload flow to be more reliable across all file types.
• Word document (.docx) uploads now convert to PDF as part of a single upload step, with a timeout so a stuck conversion fails cleanly instead of hanging.
• Avoided redundant work by reusing already-converted documents.

🖱️ Better drag-and-drop

• Dragging documents (into folders and between views) now shows a proper drag preview in both gallery and list layouts.

🧩 More dependable PDF parsing

• Moved PDF parsing and playback-readiness tracking to the background worker, with versioning so documents are automatically re-parsed when the parser improves.
• Prevented duplicate parse jobs from being queued for the same document.

🔊 Reader fix

• Text-to-speech playback and text selection now reset immediately when you switch documents, instead of carrying over from the previous one.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/richardr1126/openreader/compare/v4.1.1…v4.1.2