ZotFile: Extracting more features of annotations
@Joscha - I was just wondering whether it's possible to extract e.g. the 'comment' text (which can be attached to highlights) or perhaps even comments themselves, or the colour of the highlight? This obviously depends on PDF.js or Poppler and I saw a comment on github (for PDF.js, ~2016) which presumably was from you.
Could you let me know what's possible?
Could you let me know what's possible?
I cannot see the colours being extracted? Is this with pdf.js or Poppler?
Just to share what I found: Basically, go to about:config within Zotero, and modify these hidden prefs, e.g. as follows: Edit: The above ones don't use the colour - so just to be complete: ZotFile can also generate multiple notes, based on colour. To get this, set
extensions.zotfile.pdfExtraction.colorNotes => true
Thanks again!
Purpose: If you paste the note (e.g. into another document) the Zotero group/key allows you to relocate the item in your Zotero library.
Moreover, this means you can produce add 'scannable cites' to the notes, as follows: Set 'extensions.zotfile.pdfExtraction.formatAnnotationHighlight' to (for a group library).