Highlighting PDFs

[Julius Hamilton]

Hello,

Would anyone know of any software tool which would allow you to highlight specific parts of the text of a PDF, with efficient commands similar to Vim? That is, instead of highlighting text with the mouse, moving a cursor through the text with various navigation commands.

Thank you very much,

Julius Hamilton

[Anton Sharonov]

Not directly what you asking for. Don't know any pdf viewer capable of
what you described.

My personal approach would be to extract pdf content to some sort of
flat text. Result would be not very visually pleasant at first.
(for that phase I would go with the tool pdftotext from poppler-tools
package - there it is in openSuSe distro at least)

On the long run, if you work with same document for significant time
it may pay off to edit it by hand and beautify to something like well
shaped markdown.

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[rob]

On ubuntu, I use pdftotext to convert to a text file.  Then you can use vim, if you wish, on the text.

[Bill Hudacek]

I use LibreOffice to open PDFs all the time. Not only do I fill them
out (including my 'signature' where required...ahem), but as long as
the PDF is not 'flattened' (rasterized), you could easily highlight
parts of it.

PDFs open in Draw. They are then saved using '.odg' suffix - but from
within LO Draw, you can of course export a new PDF. It's quite slick.

Kind Regards,

Bill Hudacek
IT Architect
Currently Un-Attached, free & independent

Julius Hamilton wrote on 5/14/21 12:40 AM:

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