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We recommend setting the script up in the following way:Īctivate the Script Menu: In Mac OS X.6 and above this is done in the General pane of the Preferences in the ‘AppleScript Editor’ application. macOS will then ask you whether you want to trust the script which is required to make it work.

Do that by opening it using the contextual menu’s “Open“ command and then running the script with an arXiv paper page opened in Safari. For my PhD project, I investigate the governance of the app economy and how software ecosystems manage the tension between innovation and compatibility.Before running the script the first time, you need to make macOS trust it. In my day job, I am a sociologist studying the social mechanisms underlying the digital economy. I also thank for his ideas on annotation codes.Also many thanks to for pdfannots2json, which enabled many improvements to this workflow.Thanks to Andrew Baumann for pdfannots, which caused me to develop this workflow (even though it does not use pdfannots anymore).Note that pdfannots does not support image extraction or extracting only recent annotations, so generally you want to keep using pdfannots2json.

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This requires installing pdfannots via pip3 install pdfannots, and switching the fallback engine via aconf.

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( mgmeyers/pdfannots2json#11), and you can also report your problem.Īs a fallback, you can use pdfannots as extraction engine, as a different PDF engine sometimes fixes issues. In that case, it's a is a problem with the upstream `pdfannots2json`. There are some cases where the extracted text is all jumbled up. You can give Alfred permission in the macOS System Settings:

When the hotkey does not work when triggered in Preview, most likely the Alfred app does not have permission to access the app.

Delete all those annotations that are 'free form' and the workflow should work.

This workflow sometimes does not work when the PDF has bigger free-form annotations (e.g., from using a stylus on a tablet).

Some PDF Readers like Skim or Zotero 6 do this, but you can tell those PDF readers to save the notes in the actual PDF.

This workflow does not work with annotations that are not actually saved in the PDF file.

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Update to the latest version of pdfannots2json by running the following Terminal command brew upgrade pdfannots2json in your terminal.

(Note that some PDF readers like PDF Expert do not allow you to add a comment to rectangular annotations.)

If the rectangle annotation has any comment, it is used as the alt-text for the image.

Any rectangle type annotation in the PDF is extracted as image.The images is embedded in the markdown file with the !] syntax, e.g.The filename of the PDF must be exactly the citekey (without optionally followed by an underscore and some text like.(Some PDF readers like Skim or Zotero 6 do not store annotations int eh PDF itself by default.) The PDF Annotation Extractor works on any PDF that has valid annotations saved in the PDF file.Set up the workflow configuration inside the app. Set the hotkey by double-clicking the sky-blue field at the top left. Brew install mgmeyers/pdfannots2json/pdfannots2json

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