Derek LaneDerek@hkc.social
Nov 7, 2026, 5:21 PMretooted Quin
Paperback 1.1 is out! It's on the App Store now, and the Android update is rolling out on Google Play soon.
Highlights:
- A new PDF engine. It's faster, uses every CPU core, and no longer needs pdfium.
- Open a document from a link, on every platform. F5 downloads it again.
- Support for decades of older files: Word for DOS, Word for Windows 1 and 2, Word for Mac, Windows Write, PowerPoint 95, and zipped FictionBook.
- Word documents get real lists, footnotes, endnotes, comments, and picture alt text.
- OCR on Linux.
- Recognized text now follows the page's layout and is remembered, so a scanned document opens with its text.
- iOS text mode is rebuilt for VoiceOver. Read All goes through the whole book, the rotors reach all of it, and lists and tables are real lists and tables.
- A voice, rate, and pitch for each book on iOS.
- Audio books can play at up to 4x, with volume controls.
- Huge text files open with a fraction of the memory, and the 4 GB limit is gone.
- macOS is a universal app, and pb, the command-line converter, now comes with it.
- A Hungarian translation and user guide, plus Slovak and Ukrainian on iOS.
- Many fixes for PDF, RTF, Word, PowerPoint, CHM, and DAISY files.
Thanks to everyone who translated, tested, and reported bugs.
Windows, macOS, and Linux: https://paperback.dev/downloads
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6775220909
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.paperback.android
Enjoy!