Extract pdf annotations to hypothesis

[Jochem Holscher]

Hi,
Hypothesis is so amazing that I want to extract my non-hypothesis pdf annotations and upload them to hypothesis.

Question

Has anyone automated the process of extracting annotations from the pdf annotation layer and uploading those to hypothesis?

Context

I annotate occasionally on my Onyx Boox, which has its own app that I don't want to leave or alter. The annotations go into the pdf annotation layer, which I know, can be programmatically extracted.

Before going through that hassle myself, I figured I'd first look around whether someone has preceded me.

Cheers,

[Hakarlfresser]

Jochen,

Text annotations in PDF files may be "buried" in PDF format and not be available to copy/extract as simple text. Try copying a sample of your PDF to "DocDrop" (https://docdrop.org/ocr/) to "free" the text. Then copy the "freed" text from DocDrop to Hypothesis. I do not know if there is a routine to do this for multiple pages, sorry.

Jack in CO/US