Released: Feb 22, 2026

Updates in 2026.2.9

Features

• Added MarkdownToPdf converter (LMKit.Document.Conversion) with full formatting support (headings, bold/italic, code blocks, lists, blockquotes, tables, links, horizontal rules).
• Added EmlToPdf converter (LMKit.Document.Conversion) with embedded attachment support.
• Added markdown_to_pdf and eml_to_pdf built-in document tools.
• Added support for PaddleOCR VL models.
• Added model card for paddleocr-vl:0.9b.
• Added VlmOcrIntent enum and VlmOcr(LM, VlmOcrIntent) constructor for explicit OCR intent selection (plain text, table, formula, chart, coordinates, seal, Markdown).
• Added VlmOcr.GetSupportedIntents(LM) to query the intents a model is known to support with dedicated behavior.
• Introduced the Canvas drawing API (LMKit.Graphics.Drawing): A fluent, in-place 2D drawing surface backed by ImageBuffer with coverage-based antialiasing, Pen/Brush styling, and support for lines, rectangles, quadrilaterals, ellipses, polygons, and rounded rectangles.
• VLM OCR now provides text location data when the underlying model supports coordinate output (e.g. PaddleOCR-VL with VlmOcrIntent.OcrWithCoordinates). Each recognized text region is returned as a TextElement with a bounding box mapped back to the original source image coordinates.
• Improved VLM OCR post-processing to adapt output cleanup to the selected intent and model family.
• Added form field rendering support for PDF rasterization, improving extraction accuracy on fillable PDFs.

Fixes

• Fixed JSON serialization and deserialization failures.
• Fixed a critical initialization problem.