The road so far
Changelog
We're in active alpha. Here's what's landed, newest first.
- Alpha
Developer surface
- JavaScript/TypeScript SDK (@searchlayerpdf/sdk) with retries, polling, and webhook verification.
- MCP server (searchlayerpdf-mcp) — eight tools so Claude can process PDFs directly.
- CLI (npx searchlayerpdf): process, jobs, keys, doctor.
- Alpha
Per-page billing & scores
- Retrievability Score computed before and after every page.
- Pages we don't meaningfully improve — and blank pages — are no longer charged.
- Per-job and monthly cost caps on all paid tiers.
- Alpha
Multi-engine synthesis
- Page-level triage routes each page to its best-fit OCR engine.
- AI synthesis reconciles multiple engine outputs into one corrected text layer.
- Specialist Arabic & Persian (Nastaʿlīq) recognition.
- Alpha
Foundations
- REST API: jobs, results, diagnostics, API keys.
- PDF/A-3b archival output with the original layout preserved.
- Google sign-in, automatic 24-hour document deletion.
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