Upgrade StorageInfo about importing annotations into Zotero
To understand the problem, I need to quickly describe my workflow:
I annotate PDFs on an Android tablet for convenience, and since I don't have access to the Android version of Zotero, I use XoDo. After finishing the annotations, I switch to my PC where I organize the notes and import everything into Obsidian.
The issue I'm encountering is this: while highlighted text is imported into Zotero without any problems and retains the same color from XoDo, any other type of annotation, such as handwriting, inserted text, selected areas through squares, etc., are 'flattened' onto the PDF and are not editable or importable into Zotero. Is there some compatibility issue or something similar? Is this a solvable problem and/or on the roadmap? If not, can anyone recommend (if it exists) a PDF editor for Android that allows importing not just highlights but most importantly also selected areas and handwritten notes?
I annotate PDFs on an Android tablet for convenience, and since I don't have access to the Android version of Zotero, I use XoDo. After finishing the annotations, I switch to my PC where I organize the notes and import everything into Obsidian.
The issue I'm encountering is this: while highlighted text is imported into Zotero without any problems and retains the same color from XoDo, any other type of annotation, such as handwriting, inserted text, selected areas through squares, etc., are 'flattened' onto the PDF and are not editable or importable into Zotero. Is there some compatibility issue or something similar? Is this a solvable problem and/or on the roadmap? If not, can anyone recommend (if it exists) a PDF editor for Android that allows importing not just highlights but most importantly also selected areas and handwritten notes?
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martynas_bCurrently, Image, Ink, and FreeText annotations are only imported if they were exported into the PDF by Zotero itself. Otherwise, they are not imported to avoid potential issues when those annotations have properties unsupported by Zotero or serve a different purpose. For example, there is no such thing as an Image annotation in the PDF specification, so we can’t simply import all Square annotations as Image annotations.
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daitiCopied. Is this something that is going to be implemented eventually?