Hidden WordScanner
Private scans · No account required

Product updates

See what has changed in Hidden Word Scanner and what the project is considering next.

Current release: 1.5.0v — 11 August 2026

Shipped and verified

Recent releases

These notes describe behavior supported by reviewed release records.

Released

Product updates and release roadmap 1.5.0v #

See verified release history and prospective work on one clear, accessible public page.

  • Added: Publish a server-rendered Product Updates page with stable release links and reviewed user-facing notes.
  • Improved: Make current and earlier releases discoverable through the site footer, canonical metadata, and public sitemap.
  • Accessibility: Distinguish shipped and planned work with headings, labels, structure, and text rather than color alone across supported layouts and themes.
  • Privacy: Keep release and roadmap content free of accounts, personal data, analytics, remote requests, and new client-side dependencies.
  • Documentation: Group prospective work as Next, Later, and Exploring with a visible notice that priorities, scope, order, and availability may change.
Released

Guided evidence packets 1.4.7v #

Turn selected scanner findings into a browser-local review packet.

  • Added: Organize selected findings through a guided five-step review workflow.
  • Added: Export deterministic JSON, plain text, or a dedicated print composition with methodology and provenance context.
  • Privacy: Packet titles, recipient labels, verification choices, and notes remain in the current browser tab and are not stored with the report.
  • Documentation: Clarify that findings and packet digests are review aids, not proof of intent, authorship, origin, truth, or chain of custody.
Released

Public document inspection guides 1.1.2v #

Published practical guidance for inspecting documents and interpreting scanner findings responsibly.

  • Added: Publish seven public document-inspection guides with related reading paths.
  • Improved: Add guide-specific canonical URLs, structured metadata, and sitemap discovery.
  • Documentation: Clarify project independence and distinguish the academic email address from institutional affiliation.
  • Security: Keep unknown guide paths and error responses out of search indexes.

Prospective and changeable

Planned work

Planning notice: Plans describe current priorities, not promises. Scope, order, and availability may change as testing, security, accessibility, and student needs evolve.

Next

The project's current priority after this page launches.

Phase 6: Visual finding map

In development

Explore returning a safe rendered view of a submitted document with markers showing where detected hidden text, metadata, or related findings were located.

Considerations: Markers must distinguish exact coordinates, approximate page or region locations, and structural locations such as document metadata without inventing visual precision.

Later

Valuable work that is not yet scheduled.

Evidence-aware version comparison

Planned

Improve before-and-after review so findings can be described as added, removed, moved, or changed with honest uncertainty.

Considerations: Comparison language must not imply certainty when file formats or extraction methods limit the evidence.

Educational sample lab

Planned

Provide synthetic files that demonstrate hidden-content patterns and common benign explanations.

Considerations: Samples must be synthetic, clearly labeled, and safe to download and inspect.

Exploring

Ideas being researched or tested before a commitment is made.

Local review timeline

Under consideration

Consider a browser-local sequence of review actions that can be included in an evidence packet.

Considerations: The concept must not introduce accounts, server persistence, or claims about when a file was received.