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: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 21:17:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877floffyq.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN_Dec-owv89Oz3UhT0GBHLE2j8+EPWwkYtUwpUDErVCq2k0Aw@mail.gmail.com>
Dear Matt,
On Wed, 11-11-2015, at 15:42, Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just written up a post on my workflow for PDF's Since my blog has, I
> think, a readership of 0 (surely there's a way to get emacsers to follow
> me? ah well), I will post a link here in the hopes that someone will be
Add another 1 :-)
> interested:
>
> http://matt.hackinghistory.ca/2015/11/11/note-taking-with-pdf-tools/
>
Really neat! A few comments/questions/ramblings:
- The type of highlights you get from RepliGo contain the text itself. I
mean, when in your pdf I use C-c C-a l, the buffer showing the contents
of each highlight contain the highlighted text.
This is not what I get from, say, EzPDF (which is what I use on Android),
or from highlighting from pdf-tools itself using C-c C-a h, or from
highlighting from Okular. The contents just gives the rectangle). Hummmm...
Because of this, when I use your code on my pdfs, I only get things
such as
Highlight
([[pdfview:/home/ramon/Zotero-data/storage/ESHHD4KW/Frank_2015_Commentary.pdf::5][Frank_2015_Commentary]],
5)
instead of the text. Bummer! I wonder if RepliGO gives you a lot more
than the rest, or if I am doing something silly.
- You have to call mwp/pdf-multi-extract on each file/set of files. I guess
if I knew elisp, I'd find it trivial to iterate over a set of directories
and subdirectories (and do this using a cron job at night), and also
place everything in one single org file. Would this be something
reasonable to do?
(This might be related to your second Todo)
- I know nothing about how it works, and it does not use pdf-tools, but in
your first Todo you mention: "extend the pdfview link type (in
org-pdfview) to permit me to specify the precise location of an
annotation,". PDF.js (https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/), which is
used for instance by zotfile (http://zotfile.com/) does that and it works
out of the box with Okular (but I've not been able to get it to work with
pdftools).
- In case it matters, I have somewhat similar modus operandi. I do a lot
of PDF reading, including note-taking and highlighting, in android
tablets ---I use EzPDF, which also embeds the notes in the PDF. I have a
cron job that extracts all the highlights and annotations of all the PDFs
and places them in a single org file. The kludge is explained here:
https://github.com/rdiaz02/Adios_Mendeley#extracting-all-pdf-annotations-and-placing-them-in-an-org-mode-file
The truth is I use two mechanisms for PDF annotation and highlighting
extraction, since none is fully satisfactory to me, but the one that uses
Ruby (i.e., that does not depend on poppler) is able to actually extract
the text of the highlights.
Best, and thanks again for sharing,
R.
> All best!
> 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
ramon.diaz@iib.uam.es
http://ligarto.org/rdiaz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-11 20:18 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
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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