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Notes from the workbench

Release notes and measured write-ups: the OCR studio, the PDF reducer, the translation API, and the Auto-Reader app that reads any book or manga aloud while you commute.

1 September 2026 · Shipped
Keep the colour, lose the megabytes

The PDF reducer now keeps colour by default while shrinking real scans by up to 41%, with before/after numbers. Plus manga auto-zoom in the app, and how to plug the OCR API into an AI agent with one MCP line.
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Keep the colour, lose the megabytes

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