November 2026

In the last month, Sensible added support for extracting data from and classifying XLSB spreadsheets. Sensible also updated the Claude model version for LLM-based methods, and deprecated the Lazarus OCR engine.

New feature: Support for XLSB documents

Sensible now supports data extraction and classification for XLSB (Excel binary workbook) documents, in addition to existing support for XLSX, XLS, XLSM, and CSV files. For more information, including the content types and endpoints to use for each spreadsheet format, see Supported file types.

Improvement: LLM model version updates

Where applicable, Sensible updated the Query Group and List methods to Claude Sonnet 5.5 from Claude 4.5 Sonnet. For more information, see LLM models.

Deprecation: Lazarus OCR engine

Lazarus no longer provides OCR services, so Sensible deprecated the Lazarus OCR engine. For backward compatibility, document types and OCR preprocessors that specify Lazarus now extract text with Microsoft, so you don't need to change them. For new configurations, specify Microsoft. For more information, see OCR engine.