Okular-devel Digest, Vol 161, Issue 35

Sun Feb 23 05:11:59 GMT 2020

I forgot to add the example of non-OCR content
<https://idrh.ku.edu/sites/idrh.ku.edu/files/files/tutorials/pdf/Non-text-searchable.pdf>


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On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 10:39 AM DIVESH KUMAR <
f20170875 at pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in> wrote:

> The straight-line annotations work perfectly in non-OCR contents(an
> example of such content where you can't select text by clicking on it hence
> it can't be highlighted).
> But when a user is using the highlighter(annotation) in a document and he
> comes across a non-OCR content(that he needs to highlight) then he has to
> switch between a highlighter and straight line.
>
> I assumed when you said wide + transparent that you were talking about
> width and opacity properties of straight line.
> Thank you for your time.
>
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 5:30 PM <okular-devel-request at kde.org> wrote:
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>>    1. Re: Fwd: GSOC-2020-Okular idea discussion. (Albert Astals Cid)
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>> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 11:34:18 +0100
>> From: Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
>> To: Okular development <okular-devel at kde.org>
>> Subject: Re: Fwd: GSOC-2020-Okular idea discussion.
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>> El dissabte, 22 de febrer de 2020, a les 11:23:26 CET, DIVESH KUMAR va
>> escriure:
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> > From: DIVESH KUMAR <f20170875 at pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in>
>> > Date: Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 2:39 PM
>> > Subject: GSOC-2020-Okular idea discussion.
>> > To: <aacid at kde.org>
>> >
>> >
>> > Greetings
>> >
>> > I am Divesh Kumar 3rd year student at BITS Pilani, India pursuing BE EEE
>> > and MSc. Math and I am looking forward to participating in GSOC 2020 and
>> > contribute to KDE.
>> >
>> > First of all, I didn’t know how to contact you hence I choose to mail
>> you
>> > if you would like for me to contact via any other medium do let me know.
>> >
>> > I have been using Okular for a year now and love it for its customizable
>> > nature and many other features. I wanted to discuss a feature that I
>> would
>> > like to see in Okular. Below I have tried to describe my idea.
>> >
>> > While using the highlighter annotation in the app we can’t highlight
>> nonOCR
>> > pages/text using the highlighter annotation for that we have to switch
>> to
>> > freehand line/ straight line this leads to unnecessary interrupts while
>> > using documents that have a high number of nonOCR text or images like
>> this
>> > image.
>> >
>> > Here since the text below is nonOCR hence to highlight it I have to
>> change
>> > my annotations from highlighter(yellow) to freehand(green).
>> >
>> > I think incorporating this would result in a massive productivity spike
>> of
>> > many users. Such a free-form highlighter would also need to have the
>> > ability to highlight in straight lines when needed as a normal hand will
>> > create shaky lines this can be done by using a key(eg Ctrl or Shift)
>> along
>> > with the highlighter. Such annotations already exist in apps like Adobe
>> > Acrobat Reader wherein the rectangular highlighter is converted to a
>> > circular for when it is placed over nonOCR text or images and allows
>> users
>> > to highlight nonOCR images and text.
>>
>> You can already do straight line + wide + transparent annotations in
>> Okular, what are you suggesting to add?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Albert
>>
>>
>> >
>> > This is the Adobe implementation of this.
>> >
>> >
>> > You can also look into the following discussions about this in the Adobe
>> > community.
>> >
>> >
>> https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/adobe-acrobat-dc-highlighter/td-p/9314442?page=1
>> >
>> >
>> https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-reader/acrobat-dc-highlighting-how-to-highlight-in-a-straight-line/td-p/8332895?page=1
>> >
>> > I hope to hear what you think about my recommendation.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thank you for all that beautiful code you guys have been writing for
>> years.
>> >
>> > Yours sincerely Divesh Kumar.
>> >
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