[Okular-devel] [okular] [Bug 343355] Allow highlighting by rectangle

[ned]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343355

--- Comment #2 from ned <naught101 at gmail.com> ---
Because that doesn't let you extract the highlighted text.

Current behaviour:

1. open PDF (from zotero) in okular
2. highlight text with the highlighter
3. save as, overwrite
4. in zotero, with zotfile installed, right-click PDF > Manage attachments >
Extract annotations. This creates a note in zotero, and it includes the
highlighted text, and the page number. Note that this text is *not* from a
comment added to the highlighter annotation in step 2, it is the original text
from the PDF itself.

You can't do this with any of the other review tools, because they are just
aesthetic - they don't interact with the PDF text. You can manually add text as
notes to each of them, but that is a different process, and also a lot more
work in some cases.

Note that this example is zotero-specific, but there are other tools that let
you extract PDF annotations.

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