Upgrade StorageImport .pdf.annot files/ annotations without pdf?
(N.B. this is _not_ a request for Zotero to be able to open DRM-protected files!)
Hi! As my university library will occasionally only let me read books through Adobe Digital Editions (ADE), I have a few books that I can't import into Zotero, but I would very much like to be able to import my annotations as notes (which I can't do through the usual File > Import Annotations function, because no pdf).
ADE saves annotations as .pdf.annot, which are easily converted to .txt or .html files by simply changing the extension. However, because the files also include the metadata of the annotations, it would take a lot of work to clean them up into something usable.
Thus, seeing as Zotero already has the Import Annotations function, my question: is it possible to import annotations into a note from a separate file, rather than as metadata from a pdf?
Hi! As my university library will occasionally only let me read books through Adobe Digital Editions (ADE), I have a few books that I can't import into Zotero, but I would very much like to be able to import my annotations as notes (which I can't do through the usual File > Import Annotations function, because no pdf).
ADE saves annotations as .pdf.annot, which are easily converted to .txt or .html files by simply changing the extension. However, because the files also include the metadata of the annotations, it would take a lot of work to clean them up into something usable.
Thus, seeing as Zotero already has the Import Annotations function, my question: is it possible to import annotations into a note from a separate file, rather than as metadata from a pdf?
HTML: 2c981000-c360-420d-9e2d-e91505f84b662025-06-06T18:56:58+0000Creator id6 Jun 2025she radically departs from more traditional conceptions of what constitutes “political speech,” such as the signifying capacity of the speaker, the communicative capacity of discourse, or the semantic content of a given statement [etc]
TXT: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes' ?>2c981000-c360-420d-9e2d-e91505f84b662025-06-06T18:56:58+0000Creator id6 Jun 2025she radically departs from more traditional conceptions of what constitutes “political speech,” such as the signifying capacity of the speaker, the communicative capacity of discourse, or the semantic content of a given statement [etc]
Thus, definitely not impossible to extract the text by copying and pasting and then manually checking the page numbers, but it feels like there should be a better way.