From: Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiaz02@gmail.com>
To: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org Mode and PDF Notes!
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 00:51:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mgqg4j6.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN_Dec8q0HtsBxUaHAKFxy-xvzQbH-uctLdixZ9=qOjpc985PA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 12-11-2015, at 23:52, Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:
>
>> Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiaz02@gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> > I'll do. In the meantime, I think this is a limitation coming from
>> > poppler. Other people have mentioned similar things (e.g.,
>> > http://coda.caseykuhlman.com/entries/2014/pdf-extract.html) and using
>> other
>> > tools that depend on poppler (such as Leela:
>> > https://github.com/TrilbyWhite/Leela) also will not give us the text
>> > itself.
>>
>> I don't think this is a limitation of poppler so much as the way that
>> pdf annotations work. Typically, the subject/text field is not populated
>> by the text of the highlighted region. Rather, a highlight annotation
>> specifies bounds, color, style, etc. Basically what Repligo does (I
>> wouldn't recommend using it, as it is closed source and severely out of
>> date) is to grab the text *at the time of highlighting* and add it to
>> the notes field. I don't know of any other annotation tool that does the
>> same thing. Applications built on poppler could do it, though they
>> currently do not.
>>
>> For extracting the text of highlighted regions *after the fact*, I've
>> had good luck with this script that relies on the pdf-reader gem for
>> ruby:
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/danlucraft/5277732
>>
>> This looks interesting. It searches for file "./markup_receiver", but
> doesn't provide that file, which does not appear to be a gem. Any hints?
I think I got it from
https://www.omniref.com/github/danlucraft/pyranine/HEAD/files/lib/pyranine/markup_receiver.rb
>
> With politza's help am getting close to being able to extract annotation
> text from within pdf-tools, but am not quite there yet.
Neat!
R.
>
>
>> Matt
>>
--
Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Arzobispo Morcillo, 4
28029 Madrid
Spain
Phone: +34-91-497-2412
Email: rdiaz02@gmail.com
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-11 14:42 Org Mode and PDF Notes! Matt Price
2015-11-11 14:59 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-11-11 20:38 ` Matt Price
2015-11-11 20:48 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-11-11 20:58 ` Matt Price
2015-11-12 12:02 ` Sebastian Christ
2015-11-12 11:58 ` Sebastian Christ
2015-11-11 15:06 ` Xebar Saram
2015-11-11 15:10 ` Russell Adams
2015-11-11 16:40 ` Jeffrey DeLeo
2015-11-11 20:18 ` Matt Price
2015-11-11 17:09 ` Memnon Anon
2015-11-11 20:34 ` Matt Price
2015-11-12 17:31 ` Memnon Anon
2015-11-11 20:17 ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
2015-11-11 20:33 ` Matt Price
2015-11-11 22:43 ` Matt Lundin
2015-11-12 12:23 ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
2015-11-12 13:11 ` Matt Price
2015-11-13 0:39 ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
2015-11-12 14:28 ` Matt Lundin
2015-11-12 22:52 ` Matt Price
2015-11-12 23:51 ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte [this message]
2015-11-12 23:55 ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
2015-11-12 11:30 ` Karl Voit
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2015-11-11 15:15 Peter Davis
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2015-11-13 8:04 ` Matti Minkkinen
2015-11-16 10:07 ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
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