On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:

> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I would like to be able to insert into an org-buffer the text extracted
> from a pdf file. PDF-Tools (
> > https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/) provides some excellent tools
> for doing this.  I've written
> > (well, msotly stolen) a defun that finds all my highlights and returns
> them in the form of an org
> > heading:
> >
> > (defun pdf-annot-export-as-org-heading (pdfpath)
> >   ...)
> > -------------
> >
> > I'm sure it is very clumsy, but it sort of works.  I would like to be
> able to call this function from a
> > source block:
> >
> > #+BEGIN_SRC elisp
> > (pdf-annot-export-as-org-heading
> "/home/matt/HackingHistory/readings/latour-pandoras-hope.pdf")
> > (pdf-annot-export-as-org-heading
> "/home/matt/HackingHistory/readings/historical-authority-hampton.pdf")
> > #+END_SRC
> >
> > The results are close to, but not precisely, what I want:
> >
> > #+RESULTS:
> > #+begin_example
> > ** historical-authority-hampton
> >
> >
>  ([[file:///home/matt/HackingHistory/readings/historical-authority-hampton.pdf]
> > [historical-authority-hampton]], 1)
> >
> > In the Tudor palace at Hampton Court, there is a....
> > ...
> > #+end_example
> >
> > (a) I only get the last command, because I guess :results value only
> reports the final returned value.
> > But :results output gets me nothing.  What should I be doing?
>
> Have two source blocks? Or use :results output and output the string with
> (princ string)?
>

I ended up with this.  It's not so bad, Though I use it enough that I
should probably just define another function. Also, I'm interested in how 2
source blocks would have worked...

#+BEGIN_SRC elisp :results output raw
  (let ((sources '(

"/home/matt/HackingHistory/readings/Troper-becoming-immigrant-city.pdf"
"/home/matt/HackingHistory/readings/historical-authority-hampton.pdf"))
        (output ""))
    (dolist (thispdf sources)
      (message "this pdf is: %s" thispdf)
      (setq output (concat output (pdf-annot-markups-as-org-text thispdf
))))
    (princ output))
#+END_SRC


>
> > (b) the whole output is wrapped in an example block, which I don't
> want.  Can I do something to fix
> > this?
>
> Maybe :results value raw  or :results value verbatim - untested. I can
> never remember the right combo off the top of my head.
>

:results value raw works -- thank you!

>
> > also, (c): I'd rather set the level of the org heading based on context.
> Can I do that when I call from
> > a source block? Should I maybe be doing this some other way (e.g., jsut
> write an interactive function
> > and call it with M-x? But I like being able to assemble all the readings
> at one go, if possible.
> >
>
> Pass the level as a parameter?
>

Can I pass the level of the current heading as a parameter, e.g.:
 #+BEGIN_SRC elisp :results output raw :var level=(1+ CURRENT-ORG-LEVEL)

where obviously CURRENT-ORG-LEVEL is some function I don't know how to
access?

Many thanks for your help, Nick!

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