Text-family imports, continuous review, clearer search and source navigation, and encrypted storage for retained content derived from Protected documents.
These versioned release notes are preserved for reference.
A normal supported in-place update is designed to preserve imported documents, saved details and settings without routine reimporting. When upgrading from a previous version to MemoRay 0.5.0, MemoRay may request a Protected-storage check, the current Protected Documents password and an app restart. Keep original files and the password, and do not remove the workspace or downgrade during the update.
When a Protected-storage check is requested:
Choose Uninstall before installing when Setup detects the older app. Leave Delete the application data unchecked so the local workspace, imported library, and settings are preserved.
Continue with the default user-local install folder unless you intend to change it. Leave Run MemoRay selected when Setup finishes.
Text-family imports, continuous review, clearer search and source navigation, and encrypted storage for retained content derived from Protected documents.
The current MemoRay Founder Access release for Windows is version 0.5.0. Earlier release notes are preserved here for historical reference.
MemoRay Founder Access 0.4.0 improves the supported local workflow from import and processing through Documents, Ask/search, and source verification. It improves reading order for supported multi-column PDFs, offers a safe local refresh for eligible existing PDFs, simplifies activation completion, and makes source filenames clearer in Documents.
MemoRay Founder Access 0.3.0 improves the local-first workflow for selected and imported documents: review before processing, processing progress, document discovery, answers with sources, and opening cited material for comparison with the source.
MemoRay Founder Access 0.2.1 was the previous Windows Founder Access release before 0.3.0.
MemoRay Founder Access 0.2.0 was the previous public Windows Founder Access release before 0.2.1.
MemoRay Founder Access 0.1.18 was an earlier public Windows Founder Access release before 0.2.0.
Supported imports include PDF, DOCX, JPG/JPEG, PNG, plain text (.txt, .text, .log), Markdown (.md, .markdown), reStructuredText (.rst), AsciiDoc (.adoc, .asciidoc), and Org (.org). Text markup is inert: commands, includes and remote references are not executed or fetched.
Review staged files before processing and continue with supported files when unsupported files are skipped. Continuous Needs attention review provides explicit save and accept actions for uncertain extracted details. Review duplicates and failures; importing a file does not guarantee complete extraction.
Search labels and excerpts describe the available evidence more clearly, including when related documents do not establish an answer. Ask uses normal page scrolling with pagination and returns to the reading position after source review.
Ask MemoRay provides answers with sources based on matching information in imported documents. Match labels describe the available evidence; they do not guarantee that a source answers the question. Open the source and verify important information before relying on a result.
MemoRay stores imported copies, document details, extracted text and search data locally. For documents marked Protected, MemoRay encrypts the saved copy and retained derived content used for search and review, including extracted text, search data and sensitive history. Unlocking is required to search or view it; locked items hide identifying details. Standard content is not protected by the Protected Documents password. Original files outside MemoRay and external backups remain separate. Protection does not defend an already-unlocked device against malware, an administrator or screen capture.
The Protected Documents password is local, separate from the Founder Access license key and unrecoverable by RayAI/MemoRay. Keep the password and original files.
A normal supported in-place update is designed to preserve imported documents, saved details and settings without routine reimporting. When upgrading from a previous version to MemoRay 0.5.0, MemoRay may request a Protected-storage check, the current Protected Documents password and an app restart. Keep original files and the password, and do not remove the workspace or downgrade during the update.
Follow the app’s storage-update guidance. Importing, editing, deleting, refreshing and Protected access can pause during exclusive migration work. If a recovery problem is reported, preserve the installation and use the support and recovery guidance. Downgrades are unsupported.
Updating does not automatically reimport, re-OCR or repair malformed titles and details retained from earlier imports. Fresh 0.5.0 imports have improved review handling; older records may still require manual review.
Search covers only successfully extracted and indexed information. Low-quality scans, handwriting, rotated cards, complex layouts and OCR-derived details may need manual review. Source-location precision and performance vary by document and device.
The on-device Tesseract/PDFium reading path is used; the experimental Worldclass OCR option is not included. CSV, XLSX, PPTX, standalone JPEG 2000/JP2/J2K and TIFF are not supported imports.
Windows 10 and Windows 11 x64 are supported. There is no Windows ARM64, macOS, Linux or mobile application, cloud document synchronization, multi-device document synchronization or paid checkout.
Protected documents use a password created locally inside MemoRay. Founder Access license keys are for activation only. RayAI/MemoRay cannot recover that password; if it is forgotten, remove the current MemoRay workspace and import documents again before setting a new password. Original files outside MemoRay are not deleted.
