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From: Paul Rudin <paul-sqPYmOVXOov10XsdtD+oqA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: OT: Annotating PDF & Org
Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 04:02:36 +0100
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Russell Adams <RLAdams-oD4XmFtju8vuCfmLQ01/GwC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Given the emacs and Org oriented nature of this group, I'd like to
> know if anyone has found a good Orgish (ie: portable, text, etc) to
> annotate PDFs?
>
> Features would be items like highlighting blocks, adding notes
> (margins or "sticky" notes), and saving to either a sidecar file in a
> text format (ala Org) or directly appending the PDF.


I realise this doesn't answer your question exactly, but I use xournal
for adding highlights and notes to pdfs on linux. It does save the notes
in a "sidecar file", but its not a text file. There's an option to save
a new pdf with the annotations included.