Changelog

Everything the app does on launch day:

• The desk that only writes at the end. Make searchable, page numbering, watermark and stamp no longer generate a file on the spot: each becomes a row in a living list, and a chip beside the button says how many things are going inside. Password, “lighter” and “no metadata” are not steps — they are how the file comes out, applied at the end, which is what stops the password from ever locking whatever comes next. There is a single save button, and it builds everything in one go, from the originals: OCR, split, stamp, password, merge back — and one file comes out, not five intermediates nobody asked for.
• Removing a step from the middle. Ctrl+L opens the list of what you have asked for, with each row’s reach (“every sheet”, “2 chosen sheets”). Switching a row off keeps its options for later; removing it deletes the row. Neither touches the disk, because nothing has been written yet.
• The preview on the thumbnail. The watermark, the stamp and the page number are drawn over each page before a single byte exists, in the corner and at the angle they will occupy — and a ≣ badge marks the sheets that receive something.
• Files arrived later? New sheets come in clean, always — not by promise, by construction. A strip offers to repeat the round on them, to pick item by item what to repeat, or to leave them clean.
• One per document. A sixth mode in the Generate group, and the default when you come in through a document card: each file on the desk comes out as a new PDF with its own name. It is what stops five invoices with OCR from becoming a single file.
• The workbench. PDFs, JPG, PNG and HEIC land in the window and every page becomes a thumbnail. Drag to reorder — one page or twenty at once. Rotate, delete, insert a blank page and extract pages (or the images inside them) are gestures on the desk, not items buried in a menu.
• The scissors. One click between two thumbnails marks where one document ends and the next begins. You can also split by ranges (“3–7, 12–20”) or into one file per page.
• Merge. As many documents as you like into one, in the order they sit on the desk. Coming from Elegant File Explorer, the order is the one you selected — not the alphabetical one.
• Make searchable (OCR). An invisible text layer slides under the scan and Ctrl+F starts finding words on a photographed page. In batch, with page-by-page progress and a cancel button that really cancels. It runs on the recognition engine already inside Windows: 100% offline.
• Compression in three honest steps. Each step shows the estimated size before you choose. When the file is pure text, the app says it will barely shrink instead of pretending otherwise. A scan that will not shrink at all gets a second path: the app offers to resample the pages, telling you first that sharpness drops — never on its own.
• Photos → PDF and PDF → images. The fourteen receipt photos from your phone become one document; a document becomes PNGs when that is what someone asked for.
• Scan straight from the scanner. The app talks to the device through the service already in Windows: pages land on the desk as images and the PDF is only born when you say so. Feeder batches count sheet by sheet and can be cancelled. With no scanner on the PC, the command simply does not appear.
• Straighten a crooked photo. The app measures the tilt by geometry — no AI, no guessing — and writes a straightened copy. If the page is already straight, it says so and generates nothing. The original is never touched.
• Paperwork recipes. Save the steps you always repeat — “make searchable, compress, number” — and apply them to the whole desk later, with progress and cancel. A recipe is a readable .efepaper file: double-clicking it opens a preview listing the steps, nothing runs by itself. A password never goes into a recipe.
• Passwords and metadata. Add a password, remove the one you know, and strip the author, the producing program and the history the file carries around without you knowing.
• The result bar. Always visible, always with real numbers before anything happens: “You will generate 2 files · 14 pages · 3.1 MB, was 8.7 MB · the original is not changed.”
• The original is untouchable. The output is always a new file next to the old one; a repeated name gets a suffix and nothing is ever overwritten. The 12-second toast with Undo sends the generated files to the Recycle Bin — never the originals.
• With Elegant File Explorer installed, three extra things. Selecting PDFs in EFE and choosing “Merge into one PDF…” opens the desk already laid out; EFE automation gains “Make searchable (OCR)” and “Compress PDF”; and a search hit on page 47 becomes a button that opens the document scrolled right there. Without EFE none of this shows up, and nothing is missing.
• Three complete languages on launch day — Portuguese, English and Spanish, switching without a restart.
• Two themes × two shapes — Light/Dark/Automatic colour and Classic/Modern shape, with the same design as Elegant File Explorer.
• An illustrated manual inside the app, in your language, with its own chapter for known limits and for privacy.
• Nothing leaves your PC. There is no internet client in the code. Turn the Wi-Fi off and the app works the same — and that is the fastest way to check.