Greasy Fork

### 📜 Changelog

**v3.1.0**

* Added **External Downloader** support — send current Scribd link to [scribd.vdownloaders.com](https://scribd.vdownloaders.com/) (customizable in settings)
* Added **Preview quick-hide** button and **P key** hotkey
* Preview position is now **draggable** and remembered between sessions
* New **Toggle Preview** button inside settings panel
* Auto-fills link field when visiting downloader page with `?url=` parameter
* UI polish & minor performance optimizations

**v3.0.1**

* Added **draggable, collapsible gear menu** with position memory
* Import/export settings for easy backup/restore
* Rich HTML export groundwork to fix overlapping text/image layers in future updates
* Improved scraping performance and UI responsiveness

**v3.0.0 & earlier**

* Unblur Scribd pages instantly
* Parallel scraping engine for faster text capture
* Integrated OCR with auto language detection
* Multiple export formats: TXT, HTML (Plain/Rich), Snapshot PDF
* Output splitting for large documents
* Dark mode and fully customizable settings

## 📜 Changelog – v3.0.1 (August 2025)

### 🚀 New Features

* **Draggable & Collapsible Gear Menu** – Can be moved anywhere on screen and collapsed when not in use
* **Menu Position Memory** – Saves menu position between page visits and sessions
* **Import/Export Settings** – One-click backup/restore of your personal configuration
* **Rich HTML Export Prep** – Added underlying support for a future fix to overlapping text/images in Rich HTML exports

### ⚡ Improvements

* **Performance Boost** – Optimized parallel scraping for smoother UI and faster completion times
* **UI Enhancements** – Cleaner, more compact floating menu with better responsiveness
* **Persistent Settings Expansion** – Now saves more feature states, including new menu and layout settings

### 🐞 Fixes

* Fixed menu not remembering toggle states in certain browsers
* Fixed rare issue where Auto Scrape didn’t trigger on very short documents

### 🔮 Upcoming

* Rich HTML **layer cleanup** to fix overlapping text and images in exports
* Page-range and keyword-based selective scraping
* Integrated OCR translation tools
* AI-powered OCR cleanup
* ZIP bundling of all export formats

### 📜 Changelog – Scribd Enhancer All-in-One

#### **v2.7.3 – Full Restoration & Upgrade Release**

**(Current)**

* ✅ Fully restored **OCR support** via Tesseract.js (with async page-based scanning)
* 🧠 Added **smart OCR filtering** to skip noise (logos, symbols, watermarks)
* 🌍 Introduced **language auto-detection** + **manual override**
* 📖 Switched to **parallel page scraping** (multi-page DOM scan at once = faster performance)
* 📄 Rebuilt **floating UI**:

* Gear icon with toggle menu
* Clearer labels & grouping
* Controls: Export TXT, Export HTML, Print to PDF, Split Output
* 🌑 Improved **dark mode** with better CSS injection and style override
* 📂 New: **Output splitting** support by page count (100, 250, 500+)
* 🧾 Enhanced **live preview** window with scrollable real-time content feedback
* 🧲 Cleaner **image loading** fallback for lazy-loaded Scribd pages
* 🔄 **Persistent settings** now stored via `localStorage`
* 🧹 Codebase cleaned and modularized — easier future patching
* 🐞 Fixed issues with:

* Blank pages not being scraped
* OCR not detecting image-based text
* Menu controls stacking or wrapping poorly

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#### **v2.3 – Stable Base Version**

* Initial OCR & scraping integration
* Unblur overlay removal
* Dark mode
* Text & image scan to preview
* Basic export buttons (TXT, HTML)

## 🧾 Changelog

### v2.3 – June 2025

* ✨ Added live preview panel (optional toggle in gear menu)
* 🧠 Integrated OCR via Tesseract.js to extract text from embedded images
* 📄 Added export options for `.txt` and `.html`
* ⚙️ Gear menu now includes **"Show Preview"** toggle
* 🛠 Improved lazy-loading image handling and unblur cleanup
* 🔄 Settings now persist reliably using `localStorage`
* 💄 UI and button style polish

### v2.2

* 🧠 First version with integrated OCR and preview output
* 🎨 Improved formatting, unblur cleanup, and printable view

### v2.0–v2.1

* 🚀 Major rewrite with scraping engine, gear UI, print support, dark mode, and persistent settings

## v2.0 – June 3, 2025
- ✅ Major Rewrite: Works on both `/document/` and `/read/` pages
- ✅ NEW: Scrapes `.text_layer`, `.page`, and `.reader_column` to maximize compatibility
- ✅ FIXED: Print-to-PDF now works even on canvas-based or obfuscated layouts
- ✅ UI: Always shows “Start Scraping Book” and “Print to PDF” buttons
- ✅ NEW: Improved floating toggle menu with persistent `localStorage` settings
- ✅ NEW: Dark Mode support added with theme-safe contrast
- 🧹 Cleanup: Removed broken direct download logic
- 📦 Ready for GreasyFork publishing

## v1.0–1.9 (Legacy)
- Initial release versions with blur bypass and broken download button
- Added floating gear icon and toggleable options
- Added basic printable view and partial scraping support