Bundle (v4.7.0):
- MarkItDown frozen to a single ~75MB per-platform binary (PyInstaller via
npm run bundle:markitdown; ML extras excluded) — built and verified
locally: HTML/XLSX/PDF conversions pass through the bundled binary, and
the app resolves bin/linux/markitdown first at runtime
- Packaging copies bundled markitdown alongside Pandoc for win/mac/linux;
FFmpeg/sharp/KaTeX/fonts were already bundled
Legal artifacts:
- THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md: complete license inventory of everything
distributed (binaries, npm runtime deps, fonts, embedded Python packages)
- SOURCES.md: GPL §3(b) written source offers for Pandoc 3.9.0.2,
ffmpeg-static's GPL build, and the PyInstaller bootloader; LGPL relinking
note for libvips
- third-party-licenses/: canonical GPL-2.0, LGPL-2.1, MPL-2.0, Apache-2.0,
OFL-1.1, PSF-Python texts
- Help > Third-Party Notices & Licenses: in-app viewer for both documents
- README: 'Bundled Dependencies, Legal Notices & Credits' section
Hardening:
- download-tools.js now SHA-256 pins every artifact, verifies after
download AND against the cache on every run, and hard-fails on mismatch
(closes security finding D6)
Large tools intentionally not bundled (documented): LibreOffice,
MiKTeX/TeX Live, ImageMagick, PlantUML+JRE, Calibre.
637/637 tests green; lint clean; clean boot; bundled binary verified.
- File → Import with MarkItDown (Any Format)…: PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX,
Outlook .msg/.eml, EPUB, images, CSV/JSON/XML, ZIP (audio/OCR via the
[all] extras) — verified live against HTML, XLSX (our own exporter's
output), and PDF fixtures
- Command auto-resolution with caching: markitdown binary → python -m
markitdown → python3 -m markitdown
- SEC-1 argv discipline (execFile only, user paths never through a shell),
50MB cap, 120s timeout, sanitized errors that surface markitdown's own
"pip install 'markitdown[pdf]'" hints for missing format extras
- Output lands next to the source as <name>.md (numeric suffix, never
overwrites) and opens in a new tab; markitdown:available/convert IPC
allowlisted for renderer flows
- Help → Dependencies lists MarkItDown; README/UPDATES updated (v4.6.1)
12 new tests (629 green); lint clean; clean app boot
Anthropic-compatible provider:
- New 'anthropic-compatible' option for any base URL speaking the Anthropic
messages schema (LiteLLM proxies, Bedrock gateways, local servers)
- Sends x-api-key AND Bearer auth when a key is set (gateway-friendly,
harmless for the official API); keyless proxies supported
- Tolerates base URLs with or without a trailing /v1 segment
- Settings modal, manifest, and provider docs updated
Runtime bug fixes found by booting the app (run-to-verify pass):
- PDF editor: File > Open PDF sends operation=null which matched no switch
case and crashed on getElementById(undefined); now defaults to the merge
section
- backlinks-panel: wrong require depth (../../utils -> ../utils) threw at
panel registration time
- writing-studio stack was written against a synchronous settings backend but
the real one is IPC-backed: GoalTracker/SnapshotManager/ProjectManager and
all four panels now await; JSON.parse(Promise) crashes eliminated
- manuscript panel used window.prompt (unavailable in Electron); replaced
with an inline dialog
- collaboration comment-store/save-load made async to match its IPC IO
617/617 tests green; 4 consecutive clean app boots (no uncaught errors)
- AI Assistant plugin: multi-provider chat (OpenAI/Anthropic/Ollama/LM Studio),
summarize/improve/translate commands, proofread via ai:analyze; calls
proxied through main so API keys stay out of the renderer
- Collaboration plugin: anchor-based comments in .comments/ sidecars with
drift detection and F8 navigation
- Local knowledge base: [[wiki-links]] with click-to-create + Backlinks panel
- Crash recovery: debounced session snapshots with restore prompt on launch
- Version history: pre-save snapshots, History panel with restore/diff/delete
- Real PDF encryption: swap pdf-lib for @cantoo/pdf-lib (probe-driven UI)
- XLSX export (native workbooks via JSZip), ODT headers/footers + page size
- Offline KaTeX (bundled CSS+fonts), local-first PlantUML rendering
- Editor: vim mode toggle, snippet Tab-expansion, zen word-goal setter,
writing heatmap, writing-studio panels wired with rail icons
- Quick Note global scratchpad (Ctrl+Alt+Q), markdownconverter:// deep links,
REPL first-run confirmation
- Fix: Ctrl+Shift+P collision, pandoc converter availability check, CLI
dangling --css/--reference-doc flags, dead converter button
8 new test suites; 613 tests green; lint clean
A missing/pruned @img/sharp-* binding made the top-level require('sharp')
crash src/main.js at startup, killing the packaged app before any window.
Load sharp through a cached lazy getter instead; when the native module
cannot load, executeOperation resolves the honest failure shape
{ success: false, error: 'Image operations unavailable: <sanitized>' }
(free of absolute paths), mirroring PDFOperations' Task-27 precedent.
Amit Haridas
The interval split mode looped for (i = 0; i < totalPages; i += interval),
which spins forever when interval <= 0. Both the single-file dialog and the
batch dialog can reach it (the batch dialog's validateOperationData only
checks truthiness, so -1 passes). Guard at the source in the main process:
reject non-positive or non-integer intervals before the loop, protecting
both paths and any future caller.
Amit Haridas
Adds pdfGetFormFields (lists AcroForm fields with name/type/value) and
pdfFillForm (fills text fields by name, optionally flattens) to
PDFOperations.js, dispatched via 'formFields'/'fillForm' in
executeOperation. pdfFillForm skips unknown/non-text fields per-field
(logs + continues) rather than failing the whole batch, matching the
partial-success precedent set by pdfExtractImages.
Wires a "Fill Form" entry into the PDF editor dialog: selecting a PDF
fetches its fields via a new get-pdf-form-fields/pdf-form-fields IPC
round trip and renders one text input per field, plus a flatten
checkbox, following the same structure as the crop/pageNumbers dialogs.
Amit Haridas
Adds four new PDFOperations: pdfExtractText (pdfjs-dist getTextContent),
pdfAddPageNumbers (reuses pdfWatermark's position-mapping logic, extracted
into a shared resolvePosition helper), pdfCrop (page.setCropBox against the
existing MediaBox), and pdfExtractImages (pdfjs-dist operator list +
paintImageXObject + sharp). Wired into executeOperation's switch and the PDF
editor dialog UI (4 new sections/toolbar buttons/menu items) with no new IPC
channel needed.
pdfjs-dist v5 is ESM-only, so it's loaded via dynamic import() of its
Node-friendly legacy build; Jest needs --experimental-vm-modules to support
that, so the test scripts now set NODE_OPTIONS accordingly via cross-env.
Amit Haridas
Extends GitOperations.js with diff/branches/checkoutBranch/push/pull,
wires the 5 new IPC handlers in main.js (reusing the existing dir
resolution), whitelists the new channels in preload.js, and fixes the
Git sidebar panel's previously dead _gitDiff callback by wiring up a
diff view, branch list/create/checkout UI, and push/pull buttons.
Resolves Task 5, which deferred this work to this task.
Amit Haridas
Reviewer follow-up on Task 12: the task's own title/brief called for
batch support and no later task in the plan picks it up, so this closes
that gap. Adds a "Single File" / "Batch Folder" mode toggle to the
existing media-operations-dialog.js; batch mode swaps the per-file
input/output fields for an Input Folder + "Include subfolders" +
Output Folder trio while keeping every other parameter (width/height/
quality/angle/startTime/duration/crf/fps/format/fit) applied uniformly
to every matching file. Disabled for audio "Merge", which combines many
inputs into one output and doesn't fit a per-file batch model.
main.js: adds collectFilesByExtension() (src/main/collectFilesByExtension.js,
unit tested), a generalization of the inline collectFiles() closure inside
ipcMain.on('universal-convert-batch', ...) to match a set of extensions
instead of one format. runMediaBatchOperation() loops
ImageOperations/AudioOperations/VideoOperations.executeOperation() over
the matched files, reporting per-file progress via new
'media-batch-progress' events and a final 'media-batch-complete' event,
then shows a "Batch Conversion Complete" dialog.showMessageBox with
completed/failed counts, mirroring performBatchConversion()'s pattern.
Wired via three new ipcMain.on handlers: batch-image-operation,
batch-audio-operation, batch-video-operation.
preload.js: whitelists the three new send channels and the two new
receive channels (media-batch-progress, media-batch-complete).
Add src/main/VideoOperations.js with pure argument-builder functions
(buildConvertArgs, buildCompressArgs, buildTrimArgs, buildFramesArgs,
buildGifArgs) and a single executeOperation entry point that spawns
ffmpeg via dependency-injected execFileFn, mirroring AudioOperations.js.
Wire ipcMain.handle('process-video-operation', ...) in main.js using
getFFmpegPath() and sanitizeErrorMessage(). Update preload.js's
ALLOWED_SEND_CHANNELS: remove 6 stale video-* channel names, add
process-video-operation.
Amit Haridas
Adds AudioOperations.js with pure argument builders (convert/trim/extract/merge)
plus one executeOperation that spawns ffmpeg via a dependency-injected execFileFn,
so tests never invoke a real binary. Wires process-audio-operation in main.js and
updates preload.js's ALLOWED_SEND_CHANNELS to replace the 5 stale audio-* entries.
Amit Haridas
Three lines in tests/main/ImageOperations.test.js (copied verbatim
from the task brief's sample) exceeded the project's 100-char width,
failing npm run format:check. Ran npm run format to auto-fix; no
behavioral change.
Amit Haridas
Add src/main/ImageOperations.js (convert/resize/compress/rotate via
sharp), modeled on PDFOperations.js's executeOperation dispatcher.
Wire ipcMain.handle('process-image-operation', ...) in main.js using
sanitizeErrorMessage() on error paths, and replace the 5 stale/unused
image-* channel names in preload.js's ALLOWED_SEND_CHANNELS with
process-image-operation + select-image-folder (mirroring
select-pdf-folder for a later batch-UI task).
Amit Haridas