Browser Downloads Archiver and Backup Tool — Bi-Weekly Update — PLDG 4 #174

pranavvdesai · 2025-10-13T13:09:46Z

pranavvdesai
Oct 13, 2025

Implemented full OCR pipeline and session hardening — PR [#63](Pr 46 pranavvdesai/download-archiver-storacha#63)
- Fixed PDF.js worker loading by switching to unpkg pdf.worker.min.mjs.
- Added real OCR for scanned PDFs (render page → PNG → Tesseract) and improved image OCR (better spacing and segmentation).
- Removed all mock OCR code so only the real implementation is used.
- Hardened session restore: added getClient(skipRestore), resetClientState(), verified accounts/spaces before restore, and cleaned local session on invalid state.
Reviewed, tested, and merged:
- Context menu reliability — PR [#61](Pr 24 pranavvdesai/download-archiver-storacha#61) (right-click upload from URLs/images/PDFs with correct types).
- Space management page — PR [#62](Pr 43 pranavvdesai/download-archiver-storacha#62) (moved space selection to a dedicated page).
Reviewed with comments:
- PR [#32](feat: add space selection and persistence pranavvdesai/download-archiver-storacha#32), PR [#49](Add mobile-responsive dashboard with touch gestures and PWA support pranavvdesai/download-archiver-storacha#49), PR [#56](feat: Enhanced File Categorization, Folders & Bulk Actions pranavvdesai/download-archiver-storacha#56).

OCR pipeline — PR [#46](feat: implement OCR pipeline for PDFs and images pranavvdesai/download-archiver-storacha#46).
Context menu upload — PR [#24](feat: Add right-click context menu for direct web content uploads pranavvdesai/download-archiver-storacha#24).
Storage analytics page — PR [#43](feat: Add comprehensive space management system pranavvdesai/download-archiver-storacha#43).

Standardized auth storage keys and improved UX loading states:
- Auth key consistency — PR [#47](fix(auth): standardize localStorage keys and fix User interface compl… pranavvdesai/download-archiver-storacha#47) (resolved storacha_user vs storacha-session mismatch).
- Skeleton loading — PR [#60](feat: implement skeleton loading states for better UX pranavvdesai/download-archiver-storacha#60) (smoother perceived performance while file lists/OCR text load).

Search now works across file names, CIDs, and extracted OCR text for PDFs (embedded + scanned) and images.