PDF annotation

I really like the preview program and prefer it over adobe acrobat (reader). There is one thing I miss. To highlight text rather than areas the latter which is possible in preview. Does anyone know of another application that can highlight (not edit) text in pdf. forms. I'd rathernot use Acrobat because it is too slow.

hello,
According to your requests, I got some tutorails that are based on certain 3rd party PDF lib.
iTextSharp-http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/1f0e5773-0c35-4370-8c55-737753f81d6d/how-do-i-add-annotations-to-an-existing-pdf-file?forum=csharpgeneral
ASPOSE-http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/pdfnet/Working+with+Annotations
Spire.PDF-http://www.e-iceblue.com/Knowledgebase/Spire.PDF/Spire.PDF-Program-Guide/Add-Annotation-to-PDF-File-in-C.html
Hope it can do you a bit fover.

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[SOLVED] Wanted: extract pdf annotations created in Mac OSX preview

I just had a collegue return a pdf marked up with "annotations".
I first struggled with finding a viewer that views the annotations, and those that could (evince, okular) all have more dependencies that I'd want/need.
I decided there must be an lighter weight way to extract the text of annotations from pdfs. I searched, read, and learned about pdf annotation formats and I figured out how to extract adobe annotations from a pdf. Only then did I realize that my collegue didn't use adobe. The annotations were created in Mac OSX's preview. Preview, it would seem, does not use the adobe xfpdf format for annotations, it uses some other means to embed the annotations.
I searched the pdf file in text and hex editors, but I couldn't find anything resembling what I knew to be in some of the annotations. However Preview does it, the text must be encoded and unreadable in the "raw" file. This is in contrast, it would seem, with adobe's annotations.
My question, then, is two-fold. First, are there any text-annotation extractor tools that can get notes created in OSX's preview? If not, does anyone know of any documentation outlining how Preview embeds this information? I've been googling the latter question, but I'll I'm getting is "where-to-click" level tutorials on how to DO annotations in Preview. I can't find any documentation of how that information is embeded into the file.
Note: evince does get the text of the annotations, but I'd prefer not to keep that installed. Evince-gtk is only every so slightly lighter on dependencies. Also, in evince I get flooded with "sticky notes" with all the annotation text. It would take a while to move those around and close them one at a time to be able to actually read them. I'm hoping to be able to extract all annotation text and dump it into a text file.
Last edited by Trilby (2012-05-29 00:38:32)

Holy crap, it works. A couple hours of reading ugly docs and 32 lines of code later, I have exactly what I was looking for.
I'd love it if some volunteers would try this out, beat it up, and see what breaks first so I can improve it. After a little polishing I might put it up in the AUR.
Get the code from my dropbox here
The Ugly Patchwork Makefile and a very brief TODO list are also posted.
I'll put together a PKGBUILD once this is in better order for distribution and installation. I just got the darn thing to work, it's time to celebrate, not code more.
Note to Mods: as in my "report", please move this thread to Community Contributions.
Last edited by Trilby (2012-05-29 00:34:38)

Search PDF annotations in Preview?

How can you search your PDF annotations in Preview? There seem to be no options in the Search bar in Preview. I know you can browse highlighting and annotations via the Sidebar, but you can't search the annotations?
/edit: it seems that Adobe Reader can search these annotations - select Search (CmdShiftF), then check "Include Comments").
Can anyone enlighten me on the state of annotation search with Preview and confirm that it is missing?
Message was edited by: gko18

I will confirm that it seems to be missing - it does seem that the search bar on the right only searches the text of the PDF and not the annotations. Strange...
Thanks for the tip about Adobe Reader, I will have to check that out! One of the reasons I chose to use annotations was that I have a textbook that has been scanned as picture, not OCR, and I can't search in the text, so I figured the annotations would help me locate topics later. Hopefully I will be able to use Adobe Reader for this.

I am looking for a way or a PDF annotator app to use in a tablet that don't allow deletion as I edit.

Hi All, I am looking for a way or a PDF annotator app to use in a tablet that don't allow deletion as I edit. I need to use in a controlled process that don't allow user to delete or erase edits once a mistake is made or a rewrite is needed. Thank you

See How to call Adobe Acrobat 9 APIs to OCR the PDFs through .NET reply 4.

PDF Annotation in SharePoint

I have notice that it is not possible to add comments to PDF documents stored in SharePoint 2013. Do you know any workarounds, tools or best practices for PDF Annotation in SharePoint?
Best regards,
Olafur Johannsson

One way to annotate PDF file in SharePoint is to check it out to local drafts.
To accomplish that you need to enable edit by changing PDF mapping in C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\XML\DOCICON.xml from <Mapping Key="pdf" Value="icpdf.png" OpenControl=""/> to <Mapping
Key="pdf" Value="icpdf.png" EditText="Foxit Reader" OpenControl="SharePoint.OpenDocuments"/> and restart IIS.
The only browser that allows local checkout is Internet Explorer (IE TAB works as well), remember to check use my local drafts.
I have not found any other way to do it, Adobe solution in Adobe Reader 11 Pro does not work and an ran into problems using Foxit solution, this solution has similar complexity for user as Foxit solution if their user manuals are correct.

How to use pdf annotation data generated by Digital Edition to different Pdf reader?

Hi,
I am working on an application which is suppose to use Adobe Digital Edition PDF annotation data in another pdf reader.
Using Digital Edition Annotation Data we need to generate highlights and notes.
My question is : How we can read this Adobe Digital Edition annotation data to generate highlight and notes in different reader.
E.g of annotation data:
http://codebeautify.org/xmlviewer/32b3b7
Thanks
Mrityunjay

HI,
Try this Standard program
RSTXLDMC --> Uploading TIFF Files to SAPscript Texts
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S.Nehru

PDF Annotation Management in Oracle 9iFS

Do you need to manage and search for PDF annotations in Oracle
9iFS? Would you like to store PDF files that are used for
document reviews in Oracle 9iFS? Do you need to search for
files based on information stored in annotations (e.g., sticky
notes, hyperlinks, redlines). Would you like to dynamically
compile different views of annotated PDF files?
If so, we would like to discuss your requirements with you.
Please contact me at [email protected]

hello,
According to your requests, I got some tutorails that are based on certain 3rd party PDF lib.
iTextSharp-http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/1f0e5773-0c35-4370-8c55-737753f81d6d/how-do-i-add-annotations-to-an-existing-pdf-file?forum=csharpgeneral
ASPOSE-http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/pdfnet/Working+with+Annotations
Spire.PDF-http://www.e-iceblue.com/Knowledgebase/Spire.PDF/Spire.PDF-Program-Guide/Add-Annotation-to-PDF-File-in-C.html
Hope it can do you a bit fover.

PDF annotator which doesn't "import" files

I'm a PhD. student and I have to study a lot of scientific articles, so I bought myself an iPad Air. I have been storing tens and hundreds of scientific articles on my Copy and Dropbox account, well categorized and organized in folders.
If I want to read and highlight or annotate a PDF on my Mac, it's easy; just open the PDF in Preview, highlight what I want and then save the changes, *without creating a copy* of the document.
But what if I want to do this on my iPad? Every app that I tried, when I opened the PDF that I had stored in Copy (say), it *imported* it into the app's library and if I made any modifications to it, the modified file didn't overwrite the original one, but instead saved a copy into the app's library that I could then open if there is a companion Mac app.
So: is there any iPad app to annotate PDFs and not create o copy of them that is edited? I would be really amazed and disappointed if not...
Thank you!

I've done a bit of research on this topic and found out that the app that I was looking for should be, in fact, a file browser, with Dropbox/Google Drive/other-cloud-based-storage sync and some PDF annotating tools. So I bought GoodReader 4 and I'm really happy with it, I can call it a close on this topic.
Thank you.

What will it take to have decent native PDF annotation?

Hey guys,
I'm an academic that frequently needs to annotate pdfs. So far, the best solutions have been to install Wine and Foxit or PDF-exchange. However, I really want to have something that doesn't require me to install Wine or a bunch of 32-bit libraries.
So what will it take to have decent PDF annotation running natively in Linux. What needs to get added in evince/okular? Is there any sort of gameplan? I can't find any so far, but if there is, please point me to it so that I can contribute. If there are no efforts, please give me ideas to get started. I'm quite fed up now.
It's a cause worth getting behind. Students and other academics will highly appreciate such a feature.

drcouzelis wrote:
The Wikipedia has an interesting section on annotations and application support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdf#Annotation
cfr wrote:Annotations for PDF suck on all OS but they such more on Linux. We need a GIMP or InkScape for PDF and not just more and more pdf viewers.
I think we need a file format that was designed to have annotations built into it in an open and standard way, instead of shoehorning it into a file format that was designed to be read-only.
In a way, I agree. But in another way, I disagree. In a sane world, you'd be right. In this world, you're wrong. If you have any contact with academia, at least, pdf and word documents are *the* file formats and if you can't work with them, you can't do anything except howl at the moon.
I don't think the situation with pdf is getting worse (and Trilby gives me hope ) but the situation with word documents is. I'm semi-seriously wondering if I should give up LaTeX and try to get hold of a copy of Office (and Windows) to dual boot. Conversion from LaTeX source used to be reasonably good. Now it is simply horrible and I have people telling me they cannot work with my files at all. That's pretty bad. I checked the file in a current version of Word and they were right. The conversion to .odt left a great deal to be desired (why does it turn every quotation into a separate section for goodness sake?) but the export from LibreOffice was simply horrendous. It just stuck endnotes in the middle of pages, included weird and almost-impossible-to-remove formatting etc. etc.
I'm not saying this is LO's fault. Office formats are a moving target and the target is deliberately moved in especially difficult to discern ways. But if publishers and editors insist on Word documents (and they do), it doesn't really matter whose fault it is.
Last edited by cfr (2013-06-06 00:19:59)

PDF Annotation tools in a tablet app

I want to convert a Powerpoint presentation into a PDF and then publish this using DPS and then have the normal PDF annotation tools available in the app. Can anybody help please and explain how we can do this?

First, for converting powerpoint to pdf document, you need a mature ppt to pdf file converting tool, after being converted into pdf document, a pdf annotation application is necessary for adding and drawing annotation object to pdf page. These are the complete steps.

How do I set up my default viewer to view pdf annotations or how to I change my default pdf viewer to Goodreader?

When I open a pdf it doesn't show any of it's annotations, comments, etc that someone else may have done on that file. How do I get iPad's default pdf viewer to show the annotations or how do I change my default pdf viewer to Goodreader?

AHA, completely different animal, try posting here...
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PDF annotation with link, image doesn't show, only in print or Google Chrome, not Adobe Reader main

We are creating PDF files with annotations, we are using the O2 Solutions PDF Library for C#. We used to create PDFStampAnnotations, but now we want to make the images clickable, to navigate to the URL belonging to the image.
Therefore, we are now using PDFLinkAnnotations, with a PDFImageAppearance.
We set the flags of the annotation to Print.
However, the annotation won't show in the PDF in Adobe Reader. It does show in the Google Chrome inline PDF viewer.
It also shows in the print preview window in Adobe Reader.
But it does not show in the normal view in Adobe Reader. What we do see is, when hovering over the rectangle that should contain our image, our mouse cursor becomes a hand and a tooltip with the link is displayed. If we click, everything works as expected. But we don't see an image!
What can we do about this? This is really annoying, as I don't have a clue why it won't work. Actually, to me, this looks like a bug in Adobe Reader?
Old (working, without link):
=================================================================================
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<</Contents (DEV-1)
/M (D:20130222103743+01'00')
/Subj (TigrisTag)
/Subtype /Stamp
/F 4
/Name /Custom
/AP <</D 16 0 R
/N 16 0 R
>>
/CreationDate (D:20130222103743+01'00')
/Rect [560.349976 10.000023 601.999977 51.650024 ]
/NM (97c87adc-5494-440a-b0b4-eb606e358169)
/T (name)
/P 4 0 R
/Type /Annot
>>
endobj
16 0 obj
<</Resources <</XObject <</ImageStamp 17 0 R
>>
/ProcSet [/PDF /Text /ImageB /ImageC ]
>>
/BBox [0 0 39.20008 39.20008 ]
/Name /Form_4943204746964B4C8B728A4CBD79B339
/FormType 1
/Length 41
/Src (XO:/Form_4943204746964B4C8B728A4CBD79B339)
/Type /XObject
/Subtype /Form
/Matrix [1 0 0 1 0 0 ]
>>
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39.2001 0 0 39.2001 0 0 cm
/ImageStamp Do
endstream
endobj
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<</Width 245
/ColorSpace [/Indexed /DeviceRGB 1 18 0 R ]
/BitsPerComponent 1
/Filter /FlateDecode
/Length 471
/Subtype /Image
/Height 245
>>
stream
(stream contents)
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New (not working, with link):
=================================================================================
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<</Resources 4 0 R
/Type /Page
/Group <</CS /DeviceRGB
/S /Transparency
/I true
>>
/Annots [19 0 R ]
/MediaBox [0 0 595 842 ]
/Contents 23 0 R
/Parent 3 0 R
>>
endobj
19 0 obj
<</Contents (TigrisTag)
/A <</S /URI
/URI (http://localhost:50830/publications/code/DEV-8)
>>
/M (D:20130225170939+01'00')
/Subtype /Link
/F 4
/NM (6a41409d-b8fb-44b6-8a7c-ab1c73088869)
/Name /Image
/AP <</D 20 0 R
/N 20 0 R
>>
/Rect [544.506958 9.999985 585.000015 50.493042 ]
/BS <</W 0
>>
/CreationDate (D:20130225170939+01'00')
/H /I
/P 18 0 R
/Type /Annot
>>
endobj
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<</Resources <</XObject <</ImageStamp 21 0 R
>>
/ProcSet [/PDF /Text /ImageB /ImageC ]
>>
/BBox [0 0 39.20008 39.20008 ]
/Name /Form_119A6CEBB1C8452D962814D585C640CC
/FormType 1
/Length 41
/Src (XO:/Form_119A6CEBB1C8452D962814D585C640CC)
/Type /XObject
/Subtype /Form
/Matrix [1 0 0 1 0 0 ]
>>
stream
39.2001 0 0 39.2001 0 0 cm
/ImageStamp Do
endstream
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Thank you for your reply.
Indeed, I tried saving a PDF that had the "default appearance", it shows exactly the same. So it looks like it "can't" show the image.
However, of course, I do want the image to be shown. How can I achieve this? How can I tell Adobe Reader (and other PDF viewers) I really really realllyyyyy want to see that image there? I believe I'm not doing anything really exotic, right? There must have been tons of other people that wanted to do the same thing, I guess?
                    var annotation = new PDFLinkAnnotation
                                Action = new PDFUriAction(this.GetCodeUrl(code)),
                                Contents = AnnotationIdentifier,
                                Appearance = new PDFImageAppearance(bitmapImage),
                                DisplayRectangle =
                                    new DisplayRectangle(
                                    barcodeLocationInfo.X,
                                    barcodeLocationInfo.Y,
                                    barcodeLocationInfo.Tsw,
                                    barcodeLocationInfo.Tsh),
                                Flags = Flags
                    pdfPage.Annotations.Add(annotation);

Pdf Annotations in Preview

I am struggling to believe that it's not possible to search annotations inserted into a pdf with Apple's preview. The annotations (text box) are not found via spotlight nor via the search in Preview. Am I doing something wrong or is this a major shortcoming?

No one here can tell you what plans Apple have for anything. Even if they knew they would be excluded from saying by NDAs and so on.
Skim
http://skim-app.sourceforge.net
is more like the pdf reader you need.
Regards
TD

Getting PDF annotations in ColdFusion

Currently, I am using coldfusion 9 and I am trying to get information about annotations from within a PDF file. The problem is that there are two types of annotations: text and popup. I am using iText and I can get an annotation array that has 7 objects.
<cfset reader = CreateObject("java","com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader").init(expandPath("test.pdf"))>
<cfset pageDict = reader.getPageN(1)>
<cfset pdfname = createObject("java","com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfName")>
<cfset annots = pageDict.getAsArray(pdfname.ANNOTS)>
So now I see that I have 7 annotations ( I know one is text, and the other 6 are popup). At this point I want to loop through the annotation array and get the informartion
<cfset iterator = annots.listIterator()>
<cfloop condition="iterator.hasNext()">
       <cfset annot = reader.getPdfObject(iterator.next())>
       <cfset content = reader.getPdfObject(annot.get(pdfname.CONTENTS))>
       <cfif not isNull(content)>
               <cfoutput>
               <p>
               Text Comment =#content#    
               </p>
               </cfoutput>
       <cfelse>
               
       </cfif>
</cfloop>
So in the part where I am trying to get the popup contents, I have tried <cfset x = reader.getPdfObject(annot.getAsDict(pdfname.popup))> This works, but I can't seem to extract the data. All I need is to get either the Subject or Name from the popup innotation as they are set to a set number of possibilities in our system. How do I extract the name or subject info drom the popup object?

Thank you! I had been trying to get the subject off of the annot obj. I didn't realize that the I had to init Subj. Once I tried that I was able to do annot.get(subjKey).toString() and get the values I needed!
Thank you again!

PDF Annotation in IE browser

I am able to annotate PDF (for e.g. Add Sticky Note/comments) in IE (Version: 8.0 beta) browser when I install Acrobat Professional(Version:8.0). However, I would like to achieve the same functionality with Acrobat Reader only.
Can you suggest a method to achieve the above mentioned feature either programmatic manner (JavaScript) or by installing any additional plug-ins from Adobe?
The following is the Development Environment:
- ASP .NET 2.0
- IE version 7.0 and above
- Acrobat Reader 8.0 / 9.0
A swift response is appreciated.
Thanks,
Rajeev

hi
can you plz tell,how you have annotated the PDF, i have tried lot of ways but i couldnt,the ITEXTSHARP is the most helpfull,i would be very helpful if u can point out how to annotate in a editor.
Regards
Navin

Highlights, but no comments on PDF annotated outside of Reader for iOS

I can't seem to view comments on a PDF which was annotated before importing to Reader for iOS. Highlights show up, just not the comments associated with them.

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Adobe Reader currently does not support viewing or creation of sticky notes associated with highlights, though this is something we may consider supporting in a future update.
Thanks for reporting the issue.
-Gaurav

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