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From: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org Mode and PDF Notes!
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:52:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN_Dec8q0HtsBxUaHAKFxy-xvzQbH-uctLdixZ9=qOjpc985PA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2pn70mb.fsf@fastmail.fm>

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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?

With politza's help am getting close to being able to extract annotation
text from within pdf-tools, but am not quite there yet.


> Matt
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-12 22:52 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
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 [this message]
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
     [not found] <20@gmane.emacs.orgmode.nnrss>
2015-11-13  8:04 ` Matti Minkkinen
2015-11-16 10:07   ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte

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