Any tip on how to manage academic papers PDFs?

IvanPsy

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Oct 16, 2020, 11:48:05 AM10/16/20

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Greetings,

I was away for some time in order to test Apple Notes for note taking and storing the informations.

What I like of Apple Notes is that I can take an academic paper, I write some thoughts as text, I save the PDF of the research inside the note.

Then Apple note indexes the text of the PDF, so when I search for a word it searches inside the PDFs too.

The same for images and screenshots.

How can I replicate such feature on TiddlyWiki?

Is it possible?

Or: any "lateral" tip to manage PDFs and screenshots the same way without ditching TiddlyWiki?

After some testing I find TiddlyWiki is nearly perfect, but I really need such feature.

Thank you!

Mark S.

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Oct 16, 2020, 12:47:49 PM10/16/20

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For the PDF, copy and paste the text into a tiddler with the same name as the PDF file in a separate TW file. Create a template for the tiddlers that will link to the original PDF. Index the PDF text using Mohammad's TW indexer

https://kookma.github.io/TW-Searchwikis/

Now you can search from your main TW file, bring up the text of the PDF file, and then jump to the original if it looks promising.

You could do something similar with screenshots, but you will need your own OCR. There are online OCR sites that can grab the text for you if you don't want to buy software.

TW Tones

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Oct 16, 2020, 7:00:10 PM10/16/20

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Ivan

I would echo what mark has said. I use snagit which includes a Grab Text function and can convert text in images with an OCR process.

Snagit happily capture long page websites, but you may need to save a pdf to a webpage to extract the whole text in one operation. Dont concern your self with format just searchability to start with.

Also I am a keen user of the Free Foxit reader which is great for annotating PDF files.

Regards

Tony

IvanPsy

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Oct 29, 2020, 2:03:36 PM10/29/20

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Thank you all for your kind replies!

I see you're talking about putting so much text (possibly the whole document) so that I'm able to search for it later.

Fortunately most fo the PDFs are academic papers, so they are text I can easily copy paste.

As for the images I usually use Google Keep that has a very good OCR.

TW Tones

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Oct 29, 2020, 6:01:45 PM10/29/20

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Thanks for Sharing back.

The Free foxit reader I use also provides a full product and free online tools which I just found

Tones

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