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Tristelune

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Registered: 2007-10-09

Posts: 86

Import annotations and highlighted text in documents

Hello,

briefly I would like to be able to import annotations or highlighted text in a pdf document,
and that those annotations are done next to the same content and the highlighted text is
done on the same or modifidied text. I'm open to any software, an other document format (not
necessarily pdf) or I could imagine coding even if it would be not easy for me.

I have bought pdf's of some books and I would like to write annotations or highlight
some text. That's not a problem. Once I have done the annotations and highlighted the text
everything is fine. But it can happens that a new version of the pdf is published for two reasons:

- some errors are corrected
- it's simply a new edition of the book with new chapters for example.

At best, I would like to be able to import the annotations and the highlighted text in the new pdf. I have
only found pdfstudio for the moment which is able to do that. But: it imports the annotations or the highlighted
text at the same position. Let's take an example of what I want. For annotations:

Paragraph_1 [Annotation]

I have done an annotation next to paragraph 1. If a new paragraph is added in the book, I would like
that the annotation stays next to the same paragraph.

Paragraph_0

Paragraph_1 [Annotation]

and not

Paragraph_0 [Annotation]

Paragraph_1

It's the same idea for the highlighted text. If I have highlighted

The array begins with index 1.

If it's corrected to

The array begins with index 0 after initialization.

I want that the whole sentence is highlighted.

So is it possible with pdf ? I have already done some researches and found nothing. Did I miss something ?
If not, perhaps I don't use the right technology. Should I use another document type ? Perhaps .ps, .odt or I don't know.
Or perhaps it exists some library in some coding languages with allows to do it.

Thanks for reading and just tell me if I'm not clear.