adeelahmad · Oct 7, 2026 · Oct 7, 2026
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The backend (`fastapi_backend`) and the frontend (`nextjs-frontend`) are version
 
 - **anytopdf can make Lens's PDFs.** Settings › Documents › Make PDFs with anytopdf. On `auto` (the default) nothing
   changes unless anytopdf is here: then it reads the emails, web pages and text a server without Chromium couldn't.
-  Choose "For every document and image" and Lens downloads anytopdf 0.3.0 (checked against its release checksum);
+  Choose "For every document and image" and Lens downloads anytopdf 0.4.0 (checked against its release checksum);
   it then also reads images, flattening a photographed page before OCR. Or set a conversion node, another machine
   running `anytopdf queue serve`, and a small server reads Word, PowerPoint and spreadsheet files too
   ([anytopdf](docs/configuration.md#anytopdf)).

diff --git a/docs/configuration.md b/docs/configuration.md
@@ -223,9 +223,9 @@ Set at startup only (the config file; the web app can't choose what the server r
 [anytopdf](https://github.com/adeelahmad/anytopdf-rs) (MIT or Apache-2.0) is Lens's sister project: one static program
 that makes documents, photos and media into searchable PDFs. Lens uses it as a converter, two ways:
 
-- **Here.** With `documents.converter` set to `anytopdf`, Lens downloads release 0.3.0 for this machine on first use
+- **Here.** With `documents.converter` set to `anytopdf`, Lens downloads release 0.4.0 for this machine on first use
   (Linux x86-64 and arm64, macOS), checks it against the release's checksum and keeps only the program in
-  `data_dir/models/anytopdf-0.3.0/`. It makes the PDF of text, Markdown, web pages and emails from the same cleaned page
+  `data_dir/models/anytopdf-0.4.0/`. It makes the PDF of text, Markdown, web pages and emails from the same cleaned page
   Lens would print with Chromium, so a server without Chromium reads them, and it reads images too: a photographed page
   is found, straightened and flattened before OCR. Office files still need LibreOffice beside it.
 - **On a conversion node.** With `documents.anytopdf_url` and its token set, every conversion goes to that machine as

diff --git a/fastapi_backend/app/domain/anytopdf.py b/fastapi_backend/app/domain/anytopdf.py
@@ -31,14 +31,14 @@
 
 from . import netguard
 
-VERSION = "0.3.0"
+VERSION = "0.4.0"
 RELEASES = "https://github.com/adeelahmad/anytopdf-rs/releases/download"
 # the release archives Lens fetches, by (system, machine), with the sha256 its release published (SHA256SUMS)
 ARCHIVES = {
-    ("Linux", "x86_64"): ("x86_64-unknown-linux-musl", "2a789bf099cd14b5f68a147b44170d3f243299565b09b93b3a3329811a2492c0"),
-    ("Linux", "aarch64"): ("aarch64-unknown-linux-musl", "9c6cc307a3e6dc7e7e44c390176ce62e7b77ebad640ea74c569272104a79f6dd"),
-    ("Darwin", "x86_64"): ("x86_64-apple-darwin", "71b9170b75ac6b1783e91f15aaef9fba826d0bda5af7dbb6bbc0efcc9445f2bc"),
-    ("Darwin", "arm64"): ("aarch64-apple-darwin", "29751b5a916a328cafdad52af19a6415a9b72c36ddc8784c8c11bbd936d435c3"),
+    ("Linux", "x86_64"): ("x86_64-unknown-linux-musl", "6f112cb8a961734dee5dbe32dc52418fb1dae59a13bbd7157e9cf03b11d98d1a"),
+    ("Linux", "aarch64"): ("aarch64-unknown-linux-musl", "2478227d025b57e83df919de8eac1e413769a477ec55324ef461afdbe3e4e08f"),
+    ("Darwin", "x86_64"): ("x86_64-apple-darwin", "9226586135d8bd49bee9b7a57e39af6913f39c06d31c3187856cd53a939d0e81"),
+    ("Darwin", "arm64"): ("aarch64-apple-darwin", "6b0a803ab4cc1cf8cba3bb21adb874df5a9bea521b5149773b0f5c7ec7248cc5"),
 }
 MACHINES = {"amd64": "x86_64", "arm64": "arm64", "aarch64": "aarch64"}
 # its search layer: the document's own text, not the dates, colours and places it would add

diff --git a/fastapi_backend/tests/api/test_anytopdf.py b/fastapi_backend/tests/api/test_anytopdf.py
@@ -181,12 +181,12 @@ def test_it_is_fetched_when_asked_for(cfg, monkeypatch, tmp_path):
     assert not comp.needed(cfg, {})  # a node does the work
 
     # the release archive for this machine, checked against its checksum; only the program is kept
-    assert anytopdf.archive("Linux", "aarch64")[0] == "anytopdf-0.3.0-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"
-    assert anytopdf.archive("Darwin", "arm64")[0] == "anytopdf-0.3.0-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz"
+    assert anytopdf.archive("Linux", "aarch64")[0] == "anytopdf-0.4.0-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"
+    assert anytopdf.archive("Darwin", "arm64")[0] == "anytopdf-0.4.0-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz"
     assert anytopdf.archive("Windows", "AMD64") is None
-    name = "anytopdf-0.3.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl"
+    name = "anytopdf-0.4.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl"
     (tmp_path / name / "plugins").mkdir(parents=True)
-    (tmp_path / name / "anytopdf").write_bytes(b"#!/bin/sh\necho anytopdf 0.3.0\n")
+    (tmp_path / name / "anytopdf").write_bytes(b"#!/bin/sh\necho anytopdf 0.4.0\n")
     (tmp_path / name / "plugins" / "anytopdf-plugin-faces").write_bytes(b"x")
     with tarfile.open(tmp_path / f"{name}.tar.gz", "w:gz") as t:
         t.add(tmp_path / name, arcname=name)

diff --git a/fastapi_backend/tests/fake_anytopdf.py b/fastapi_backend/tests/fake_anytopdf.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 args = sys.argv[1:]
 if args == ["--version"]:
-    print("anytopdf 0.3.0")
+    print("anytopdf 0.4.0")
     sys.exit(0)
 with open(@LOG@, "a") as f:
     f.write(json.dumps({"args": args, "proxy": os.environ.get("https_proxy"), "anytopdf_env": sorted(k for k in os.environ if k.startswith("ANYTOPDF_"))}) + "\n")