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My supervisor usually requests me to deliver some kind of written reports. I write them in LaTeX, deliver them as PDF, and get them back with lots of comments. She uses Acrobat Professional to create the comments.
I would like to extract a list of all comments from the file so I can in a second step import them into a task management tool. Some simple text format will suffice, I can write a script to add markup if needed. All I want is that single comments are separated somehow, e.g. by two blank rows (I think she sometimes adds newlines into comments).
I strongly prefer a solution which works under Linux, but in the worst case will accept something which requires Windows. I don't have a license for Acrobat professional or other paid PDF readers, so please recommend free software if possible.
1notes: a) do not install
libpdfbox-java
directly as this program relies on an old version of pdfbox rather runpdfannotextractor --install
, b) the program doesn't really work (in my experience) to extract annotations to plain text – jaimedash – 2017-04-27T18:28:14.690Yep, also not working for me:
!!! Warning: Annotation on page 1 not recognized! java.lang.Exception: Unsupported annotation subtype: FreeText
– naught101 – 2017-08-29T03:07:21.847