Changelog

The version you have is on chrome://extensions (or edge://extensions), under Page Scanner. After an update, the next editor you open says so, with a button to this page.

2.2.0

October 24, 2026

• Added Scan scrolling in the popup, a preview: it scrolls the page by itself and makes a storyboard of how it behaves, the page cut into scenes with six frames each and what moved said in sentences. The editor plays it back in a flipbook, lets you mark the frames up, leave scenes out and write a note for each, and saves it as one PDF to hand to an AI coding agent
• Added scroll storyboards for local agents: page-scanner storyboard and the MCP server's storyboard_page get the same PDF, what was measured as JSON and the frames as files

2.1.0

October 2, 2026

• Added Map this site in the popup, a preview: up to 30 of a site's pages captured whole and laid out on the editor's canvas by how many links they are from the start, with the links drawn between them, saved as one PNG, an SVG or a file for Figma
• Added Record steps in the popup, a preview: each click becomes a step with a picture of the screen and a sentence that says it, sign-in and password fields are redacted, and the editor writes the guide as one PDF, a page a step
• Added an accessibility check, switched on in the settings: the page's failures against WCAG A and AA boxed on the capture and listed in the editor's Accessibility panel, which saves the marked PDF
• Added CSV to the Output Format panel, for the tables in the crop, including the ones a page draws with table roles or as a CSS grid
• Added a welcome page after the install that says where the icon went, and a short tour of the editor the first time it opens
• Improved Markdown and Word for discussion threads: comments, paragraphs and code stay apart, and a comment tree drawn by indentation keeps its depth
• Improved Main content on pages whose main column sits beside a sidebar, such as GitHub issues
• Improved the popup's buttons with an icon each
• Fixed Markdown missing the text inside a shadow root and in code editors
• Fixed very long and virtualized pages stopping short of their end, and chats that had not yet loaded their whole history
• Fixed pages whose own print handlers changed the page while it was captured

2.0.0

September 29, 2026

• Added the AI Assistant (Mod+K), a panel in the editor that does what you ask in a sentence, in any language, with the editor's own controls: it lists what it would change, runs it on Mod+Enter, and Undo puts it back. It is a preview, read by Page Scanner's server, free for 10 requests a month
• Added a side panel before the scan, opened from the button left of the popup's gear: say how the page should be captured (the width, the clutter to hide, folded sections, the color scheme, videos, one element), then approve it with Scan. The editor's Assistant carries on from what was said there
• Added a phone width for the scan, and Phone screen pages for a PDF
• Added the page's own citation data (author, date, publisher, address) to every file, with an optional RIS file for a reference manager, and an author or a date offered from the byline where the page declares none
• Added extracting several tabs as a research bundle: a ZIP with a file and its Markdown for each tab, a references file, an index and SHA-256 digests
• Added a note in every file when the browser machine-translated the page
• Added the words in the page's pictures to the PDF's text, as canvases already were
• Added the page's language to every PDF, detected where the page does not say it
• Added ID and tax numbers found by their check digit to Pattern Scan, for Korea, Japan, China, Italy and the US
• Added an offer of a model run in the browser, or a server on this computer, where AI scan and tidying find no built-in model
• Added, for local agents: Markdown sized to fit a context, personal data taken out before an agent reads the page, slices of the page sized for a vision model, the page's pictures as files, and the passages an agent quoted highlighted in the PDF
• Added a short survey on the page that opens when Page Scanner is removed
• Changed the wordmark's typeface to Bricolage Grotesque
• Removed Phone, tablet and desktop, the three widths side by side in one scan: a saved choice of it now scans at the phone width, and captures made with it still open
• Fixed the color scheme choice on pages that switch their theme with a class
• Fixed AI scan and tidying reaching for a model that has to download first while offline

1.3.2

September 26, 2026

• Added a background for the frame's padding: a color, eight gradients, ten wallpapers made for Page Scanner, or a picture of your own
• Added Find in the capture (Mod+F), which searches the capture's text and steps through every hit
• Added a choice of AI model in the settings: Chrome's built-in one, a model served on this computer (Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp and others), or a model run in the browser
• Added editing AI scan's prompts, per kind, with a way back to the default
• Added Remove element (D), a prototype tool that scans the page again without the elements you point at
• Added Mod+P to extract, Mod+1 to Mod+6 to open the rail's panels and Mod+B to fold the panel, with each shortcut shown on its button while Mod is held
• Added a note in the editor after an update, with a link to this changelog
• Added a trash button beside each find in Sensitive Text, to take it off the list
• Changed Sensitive Text to look for nothing until a scan is pressed, with Pattern Scan, Custom Pattern and AI Scan each a button of its own
• Changed the stage's right-click menu to leave out what cannot be done right now
• Fixed the editor's keys not answering on a keyboard that types no Latin letters, such as Korean
• Fixed an editor left open putting its output choices back over the ones made in another
• Fixed a colored padding showing through the white parts of a page in the PDF
• Fixed two of the toolbar's menus staying open at once

1.3.1

September 25, 2026

• Added Microsoft Edge support: Page Scanner is listed on Edge Add-ons, and says Edge wherever it talks about the browser
• Added Page Scanner Helper support to the Edge build, so local agents connect there too

1.3.0

September 24, 2026

• Added a new editor layout: floating islands, a grouped toolbar centered on the stage, and no header
• Added a rail on the right for the editor's panels, with Help, the theme and the settings at its foot
• Added a Presets panel to the rail
• Added a right-click menu on the stage
• Added Mod+C to copy the crop
• Added W and H fields to the Frame panel, to size the crop exactly
• Added crop guides with a choice of grid, switched on from the Frame panel
• Added a dot grid to the canvas, and a choice of canvas gray
• Added Erase text (W), which takes words out of the capture as if they had been deleted
• Added opening a PDF from disk in the editor, as its own pages
• Added opening an image from disk in the editor, with Find sensitive text working on pictures
• Added a clean-up before capture that hides ads, consent banners, chat widgets and pop-ups, on by default, with a toast that says what was hidden
• Added the design extract: a page's design as tokens, an audit and a contrast check, a site's pages found by following its links, and its components drawn in a vector catalog
• Added tidying of Markdown and Word exports with Chrome's built-in model, on this computer
• Added connecting local agents through Page Scanner Helper, with no port or token to paste
• Added a green Page Scanner tab group for the tabs an agent opens
• Added a card by the toolbar that explains Chrome's debugging bar, and a page on why it appears
• Added the page's favicon and title to the popup's header
• Added a scan animation to the popup, which now stays open while a scan runs
• Changed Extract to a round button over the stage that goes straight to a file
• Changed the settings to a dialog over the editor, opening on Appearance
• Changed the popup's page width to a select, and set the scan apart from Pick an element with "Or"
• Changed the output choices to one line each, with hints on hover
• Changed the window frame on the stage to draw the way the file draws it, in the Windows 11 style
• Changed remembering the editor's last choices to follow a setting
• Changed the extension's name back to Page Scanner alone, with a new summary in five languages
• Changed a bridge failure to show as a toast
• Fixed the move cursor showing over a crop that covers the whole page
• Fixed Extract changing width while it builds
• Fixed the popup, the editor and the settings showing a light frame before painting dark
• Fixed pdf.js warnings appearing on the extension's Errors page
• Fixed an agent's tab timing out after it was grouped
• Fixed Connect needing a reload before it used the helper

1.2.0

September 23, 2026

• Added Word export of the crop's text
• Added Markdown export of the crop's text
• Added PDF/A-2b export, for archiving
• Added an integrity record written beside an export, and a way to verify it
• Added scanning several selected tabs into one document
• Added the page as Markdown beside the file, for agents
• Added annotation text set in the captured page's own fonts, as real text in the PDF
• Added Korean, Japanese and Chinese annotation text, placed in the PDF as a picture with its words
• Changed the popup's element picker to a button, Pick an element
• Changed the tool palette to open folded, and slide open from a pencil
• Changed export file names to keep the letters of any script
• Changed the formats agents can ask for to PDF, PNG and JPEG
• Fixed Chrome crashing on long pages, which are now captured whole
• Fixed a white band at the bottom of some previews
• Fixed pages on a 2x screen printing differently from how they showed
• Fixed pages with a nonce-only style-src moving during the capture

1.1.0

September 23, 2026

• Added a logo, a name and a watermark on the output
• Added text recognition for the pictures in a capture, run on this computer, so their words are in the PDF
• Added links in the PDF, kept from the page
• Added PDF bookmarks from the page's headings
• Added capture of pages taller than 60,000 px, printed in exact bands and joined
• Added capture at a phone's, a tablet's and a desktop's width in one scan
• Added opening what a page keeps folded before the capture, and folding it back after
• Added picking one element on the page, which opens the editor cropped to it
• Added Find sensitive text, which offers sensitive text in the crop for redaction
• Added cutting a band out of the output, with the text past the crop kept out of the PDF
• Added numbered steps and a close-up on the capture
• Added named presets for the editor's choices
• Added a macOS or Windows title bar around the output
• Added usage statistics that count which features are used, with a switch in the settings' Privacy section
• Changed the editor to open with the crop on the page's main content
• Fixed a page too tall for 2 % zoom not fitting on the stage
• Fixed pages written with light-dark() printing in the wrong color scheme
• Fixed a text selection in an article dropping when the pointer was between paragraphs
• Fixed the empty side of the palette column blocking clicks
• Fixed a sticky table-of-contents heading turning up in the bookmarks

1.0.0

September 22, 2026

• Added rectangles, ellipses, lines and arrows
• Added a highlighter that multiplies into the page
• Added text on the capture, kept as text in the PDF
• Added emoji stamps
• Added blur and redaction: the text under a redaction is removed from the PDF, and the text under a blur is rewritten, so an extractor cannot read either
• Added selecting text by dragging across it, for the highlighter, the blur and the redaction
• Added padding and a border around the output
• Added the source URL and the capture time, stamped on the output
• Added paper page breaks placed where the page is quiet, not where the ruler falls
• Added capture at a sheet's width, chosen in the popup before the scan
• Added capture in the color scheme the page is showing, or one you choose
• Added a panel beside the stage for what shapes the file
• Added remembering the last marks style and output choices between captures, with a reset
• Added offering the page again when the popup opens over its editor
• Changed toasts to show their status by color, with a close button
• Fixed the page zooming to double size on a 1x display while a scan runs
• Removed the small-print caution, which showed on almost every capture

0.3.1

September 13, 2026

• Changed the extension to a new design system
• Changed pairing to point at the new page-scanner command line
• Added the wordmark to the canvas
• Improved the crop guides' contrast on a white page in light mode

0.3.0

September 12, 2026

• Added US Letter
• Added printed-sheet margins to the PDF's pages
• Added a notice when a capture stopped at the size ceiling
• Changed the default PDF page size to A4
• Changed the page sizes to say what each one does

0.2.1

September 4, 2026

• Changed the extension's description

0.2.0

September 4, 2026

• Added a local bridge, so an AI agent can run a scan over MCP
• Added the sheet cuts, drawn on the stage while Extract is open
• Fixed boxes sized to the window stretching when the page is laid out at its full height

0.1.1

August 24, 2026

• Fixed capture of app shells that scroll a nested box instead of the page

0.1.0

August 23, 2026

• Initial release: full-page capture to a PDF whose text is still text, and to PNG and JPEG, with a crop, zoom, actual size and copy to the clipboard