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Posted by justinrr
May 13, 2012 at 07:11 AM

Thanks all for an interesting discussion (esp re: the dream of integration; I’ve been searching for it and thought it was just my failings to find the perfect system that stood in the way?seems it’s a problem for everyone).

At least there may be a solution to the extraction/reading of pdf annotations, if that’s the correct reading of some comments here. I use Zotero as my reference manager (Open source alternative to Endnote). Very good program. You can place pdfs within it, and an add-on called Zotfile will extract highlighting, underlying and comments that you’ve entered on the pdf, exporting them as a plaintext file within Zotero (which could of course be pasted into any other document you wish). I’ve used it only a bit, and only with annotations made in Mac OS Preview, but it appears to work quite well, and does catch things like highlightings.

Happy Hunting!

Posted by Dr Andus
May 14, 2012 at 09:51 PM

justinrr wrote:
>At least there may be a solution
>to the extraction/reading of pdf annotations, if that’s the correct reading of some
>comments here. I use Zotero as my reference manager (Open source alternative to
>Endnote). Very good program. You can place pdfs within it, and an add-on called
>Zotfile will extract highlighting, underlying and comments that you’ve entered on
>the pdf, exporting them as a plaintext file within Zotero (which could of course be
>pasted into any other document you wish). I’ve used it only a bit, and only with
>annotations made in Mac OS Preview, but it appears to work quite well, and does catch
>things like highlightings.

Thanks Justin, I do have Zotero installed but I haven’t heard of Zotfile before. I’ll check it out.

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