Re: [off-topic] E-readers and Org-Mode

["L.C. Karssen" <lennart@karssen.org>]

On 25-10-2022 15:55, Juan Manuel Macías wrote:
> Fraga, Eric writes:
> 
>>> I wonder if these devices are capable of exporting normal annotations in
>>> plain text or xml?
>>
>> The annotations are not text: they are vector data corresponding to the
>> movement of the stylus.  You can extract that information (I have
>> software for the reMarkable that does so) but doing character
>> recognition would be challenging...
> 
> I see... I was referring to annotations entered as text. Can't you do
> annotations on those devices like you do in a typical PDF reader,
> Acrobat or Okular style, using an on-screen keyboard or a physical
> keyboard? It's those kinds of annotations I was referring to, the ones
> that are stored as metadata in the PDF.

Another happy reMarkable user here. It looks like the upcoming v3.0 of 
the software will allow entering text via the on-screen keyboard. 
Whether that is only for 'regular' notes or also for PDF annotation is 
not yet clear to me (source: 
https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Software-release-3-0-beta).


Best regards,

Lennart.

> 
> As for the stylus notes, I think I would find them useful especially for
> proof reading. But very often what I need is just to put text. In Org I
> use Org-noter + pdf-tools a lot.
> 

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