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PDF Explorer => General => Topic started by: Grant Botes on December 05, 2017, 09:41:17 AM

Title: Question: I need a way to extract highlights and comments to a CSV
Post by: Grant Botes on December 05, 2017, 09:41:17 AM
I'm looking for a way to extract highlights and comments/notes from sets of PDF files into a CSV file. Is there a way to do it in PDF Explorer that I might have missed, or perhaps any suggestions in this regard?

Thanks in advance.
Title: Re: Question: I need a way to extract highlights and comments to a CSV
Post by: RTT on December 06, 2017, 01:11:54 AM
Not possible with the current PDF Explorer public release, but the script functionality of the PDF-ShellTools (http://www.rttsoftware.com/shelltools.html), v3.1 and up (that will be also available in the next PDFE version), has access to the PDF annotations, so a script can be used to create such functionality.

I've duplicated this forum topic in the PDF-ShellTools section of the forum and have posted there (http://www.rttsoftware.com/forum/index.php/topic,641.msg2011.html#msg2011) a sample script that dump to a CSV file all the PDF annotations found in each PDF.

That same script will work with the next PDF Explorer, higher than the actual 1.5.66.2, version release.