[Okular-devel] [Bug 199401] New: Wish: Library management for PDF (and other) files

Navneet Sankara navsan at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 11:59:00 CEST 2009


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199401

           Summary: Wish: Library management for PDF (and other) files
           Product: okular
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: okular-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: navsan at gmail.com


Version:           Okular 0.8.2 (using KDE 4.2.90)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Would it be possible to have library management of files on the personal
computer from within Okular? I am a budding researcher and I find Zotero (
http://www.zotero.org/ ) very useful to manage all the papers that I have on my
HD. It would be useful to have this functionality from within Okular (much the
same as Amarok manages my music, for example). I think some of this is present
in a proprietary software for Mac users called Papers.

In combination with the annotation tool, this would greatly improve usability
for researchers (and for other users as well?). The ability to search and
access files using keywords, author names, title, abstract etc would be very
helpful. Keeping sub-collections of files (for, say, all references for a
particular project) would also be useful.

Additionally, it would be nice to have a way to parse citations and download
the papers automatically, if possible. Yet another useful feature would be a
snapshot (or a quick preview) for links within files. For example, when you
point to a reference to an equation number, a figure number, a citation etc, it
would be nice to have a preview of the corresponding item. This would need a
lot of indexing and OCR, I would imagine and is probably a bit too far fetched.
But I'm just making wishlist! ;)

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