[okular] [Bug 417145] Feature Request: Searching PDF Annotation content

[John Lubinski]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417145

John Lubinski <john at johnlubinski.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from John Lubinski <john at johnlubinski.com> ---
>From my understanding, to do a search on the annotations' content would require
a complete overhaul of how this review side panel functions. The currently
implemented search line is only able to filter entities that appear in the
tree/list. For example, you can search the annotations in this panel by their
page number, their author, or their pop-up type.

Example:
(pagenumber) input: 5, output: Page 5, Page 25, Page 57
(pop-up type) input: write, output: Typewriter
(author) input: adm, output: Administrator
(author) input: jo, output: john

Because the tree already has toggle options to filter by page, author, both, or
neither, this kind of search is redundant. And how often is filtering by pop-up
type useful? On the other hand, filtering by annotation content would require
the content to appear in the tree (think this is possible, but not entirely
sure), which has a limited amount of space.

I think that we should instead provide optional functionality to provide a
keyword or title to be associated with an annotation in lieu of its type. For
example, if I make a note with the highlighter over a paragraph containing the
history of Okular, I should be able to assign a title to it called "Okular
History" and search "history" to find it in the review sidebar. If nothing is
assigned, it should keep its current behavior.

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