icereed/paperless-gpt v0.20.0

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Release Highlights 🚀

New Features

🧠 Google Gemini AI Integration

• Added Google Gemini AI support - Paperless-GPT now supports Google's Gemini AI models as a new LLM provider option
• Thinking budget support - Leverages Gemini's new thinking capabilities for enhanced document processing
• Enhanced error handling - Improved API response validation and error management for Google AI services
• Set LLM_PROVIDER: "googleai" and configure your Google AI API credentials to get started

Improvements & Refinements

🔧 LLM Prompt Optimization

• Enhanced prompt structure - Added XML-like separators to LLM prompts for improved parsing accuracy and consistency
• Better data organization - Input data is now enclosed in structured tags for clearer LLM interpretation
• Improved reliability - More consistent results across different document types and LLM providers

📄 PDF Processing Fixes

• Fixed split PDF logic - Updated file naming pattern to match pdfcpu output format (removes zero-padding)
• Consistent naming - Split files now use simplified naming: original_1.pdf, original_2.pdf, etc.
• Better workflow integration - Improved compatibility with existing PDF processing pipelines

Documentation Updates

📚 Model Recommendations

• Updated model suggestions - Documentation now recommends qwen3:8b instead of deepseek-r1:8b for Ollama users
• Better performance - qwen3:8b offers more recent and powerful reasoning capabilities
• Improved examples - Updated configuration examples throughout the documentation

Dependencies & Maintenance

🔄 Dependency Updates

• testcontainers updated to v10.28.0 - Latest testing framework improvements
• globals updated to v16.2.0 - Enhanced JavaScript globals definitions
• Automated maintenance - Renovate bot ensures dependencies stay current and secure

Technical Details

What's Changed

• adds support for new gemini models with thinking budget #441
• refactor: Add XML-like separators to LLM prompts for improved parsing #442
• fix: the split pdf logic to be consistent with the output from pdfcpu #435
• doc: mention qwen3:8b instead of deepseek-r1:8b #439
• chore(deps): update dependency testcontainers to v10.28.0 #425
• chore(deps): update dependency globals to v16.2.0 #428

Contributors

Special thanks to @thiswillbeyourgithub, @dawidkulpa, and @moarsmokes for their contributions to this release!

Configuration Notes

• For Google Gemini AI: Set environment variables for GOOGLE_AI_API_KEY and configure LLM_PROVIDER: "googleai"
• No breaking changes - existing configurations continue to work as expected
• Consider updating to qwen3:8b model if using Ollama for better performance

New Contributors

• @thiswillbeyourgithub made their first contribution in #439
• @moarsmokes made their first contribution in #435

Full Changelog: v0.19.0...v0.20.0