From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ramon Diaz-Uriarte Subject: Re: OT: Annotating PDF & Org Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 23:36:31 +0200 Message-ID: <871u9ibhgg.wl%rdiaz02@gmail.com> References: <20130506133907.GU22683@cardamom.adamsinfoserv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49914) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZpYq-0003rv-E9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 May 2013 17:36:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZpYo-0004hY-Ku for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 May 2013 17:36:36 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-x231.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::231]:47053) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZpYo-0004hO-FR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 May 2013 17:36:34 -0400 Received: by mail-we0-f177.google.com with SMTP id q58so1073928wes.22 for ; Tue, 07 May 2013 14:36:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Bufo.gmail.com (181.Red-79-151-134.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net. [79.151.134.181]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id nf9sm5459209wic.3.2013.05.07.14.36.31 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 07 May 2013 14:36:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130506133907.GU22683@cardamom.adamsinfoserv.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode On Mon, 6 May 2013 08:39:07 -0500,Russell Adams = wrote: > 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 am not sure this will be of much help since the annotations, etc, are not originally saved in a sidecar file but this is basically what I do: - Annotate/highlight the PDF, keeping the annotations in the PDF itself (when on the computer I use Okular, and "Save As"; if in the tablet, I use ezPDF or similar). I emphasize this: the annotations are in the PDF itself (i.e., if you open the PDF with evince, acrobat reader, whatever, you'll see them there). - Extract the annotations from my complete collection of PDFs (nightly cron job), storing all of them in an org file, with a link to the PDF. (I do the extraction with Leela ---https://github.com/TrilbyWhite/Leela---, which I find is more reliable than poppler-based approaches, such as that in recoll). So the orgish part is just the second one, but it works for me: I can search all of my annotations and jump directly to the PDF, from a single org file from within Emacs. Highlights? Nope, it does not work as Leela does not extract them and I could not find another tool to do it automagically. Recoll will extract all text from PDFs (not the annotations, though), so I can search for specific text on my complete PDF collection using recoll. But that ain't orgish at all ;-) and it is decoupled from the previous approach. A few more details, and some ugly R code that I use to do this are available here: http://ligarto.org/rdiaz/Zotero-Mendeley-Tablet.html#sec-9 Best, R. > Thanks. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Russell Adams RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.com > PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ > Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 --=20 Ramon Diaz-Uriarte Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25 Facultad de Medicina=20 Universidad Aut=C3=B3noma de Madrid=20 Arzobispo Morcillo, 4 28029 Madrid Spain Phone: +34-91-497-2412 Email: rdiaz02@gmail.com ramon.diaz@iib.uam.es http://ligarto.org/rdiaz