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Hi,
Last year, I wrote a script that you might be interested in!
Change the .txt extesion of the attached file in .js then place this file into the JavaScript folder of your Acrobat then restat the application.
You will get a new "* b2Tools *" item in your "Edit" menu.
Select "Comments Summary"...
Choose what you want, then "OK".
Try it and let me know...
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Hi,
After changing the file extension from .txt to .js (from b2T-Comments report.txt to b2T-Comments report.js), you must place this file into the JavaScript folder of your Acrobat application.
If you don't know where is this folder, you can use the attached "Show_me_the_path.pdf" file which will help you to find it.
Then you will have to restart your Acrobat application then follow previous indication which should answer to your need.
Let me know.
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Hi,
I'm sorry if my utility is not exactly what you expected, but it was developed for another request and it took hours of programming.
If you only need to extract 21 comments, I think that will take less time to do that manually than to develop a similar utility adapted to your request.
FYI, I don't think this utility generates the pdf file and the display in the console without generating the txt file. You certainly don't know where find it. You should find it in the Attachment panel.
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- Screen-shot below displays how it gives an error message if I unselect PDF and console options and have only the text file option selected.
- This below screen-shot is after generating the extraction into the console. The 'attachment' section in Acrobat simply does not display a textfile at my end unfortunately.
- Oh no, this is not just for 1 PDF file! I have just started a PhD study and I will have in excess of 300 PDF files minimum and each PDF with up to 30 highlights. It would be really useful to have a utility where one can extract just the highlights as text with no metadata information as such.
I do appreciate the time you've invested in making this programme and for your detailed responses; thank you very much!
In fact, that was not a bug but a demand for only import the txt file when the new pdf summary file is generated.
I've just done a revision to allow the txt file attached to the actual pdf file with or without saving.
But this revision (attached) give all previous information for each comment.
Else, I've also just written the script below you can run as an action wizzard which will only extract the highlighted text.
var version="04/23";
// Début durée
d0=new Date();
debut=util.printd("dd/mm/yyyy à HH:MM",d0);
// C'est parti !
console.show();
console.clear();
var lesTirets="––––––––––––––";
var lesProprietes=["quads","contents"];
var possible=1;
var highlightedPage=new Array(this.numPages);
this.syncAnnotScan();
var annots=this.getAnnots();
if (annots!=null) {
var cT=0;
for (var i=0; i<annots.length; i++) {
if (annots[i].type=="Highlight" || annots[i].type=="Underline" || annots[i].type=="Squiggly" || annots[i].type=="StrikeOut" || annots[i].type=="Redact") {
if (annots[i].type!="StrikeOut" && !possible) possible=1;
var laPage=annots[i].page;
if (typeof highlightedPage[laPage]==="undefined") highlightedPage[laPage]=new Array();
highlightedPage[laPage].push(i.toString());
for (var prop=0; prop<lesProprietes.length; prop++) {
if (typeof eval("annots[i]."+lesProprietes[prop])=="string" || lesProprietes[prop]=="quads") {
highlightedPage[laPage].push(eval("annots[i]."+lesProprietes[prop]));
}
}
highlightedPage[laPage].push("-");
}
}
var incr=lesProprietes.length+2; // 1 pour N° de page + 1 pour AV/AP
for (var i=highlightedPage.length-1; i>=0; i--) {
if (typeof highlightedPage[i]==="undefined") {
highlightedPage.splice(i,1);
} else {
highlightedPage[i].unshift(i);
}
}
reponses=highlightedPage.slice(0);
for (var j=0; j<reponses.length; j++) {
reponses[j]=highlightedPage[j].slice(0);
for (k=2; k<reponses[j].length; k++) reponses[j][k]=highlightedPage[j][k].slice(0);
}
for (var j=0; j<reponses.length; j++) {
for (k=2; k<reponses[j].length; k+=incr) reponses[j][k]=[];
}
//
for (var j=0; j<highlightedPage.length; j++) {
var p=highlightedPage[j][0];
console.clear();
console.println("D\Process starting: "+debut);
console.println(lesTirets);
console.println("Processing page "+(p+1));
// Y maxi et mini dans la page
var max=[];
var min=[];
for (k=2; k<highlightedPage[j].length; k+=incr) {
r=highlightedPage[j][k][0];
r=r.toString();
r=r.split(",");
max.push(r[1]);
min.push(r[7]);
}
max.sort(function(a,b){return b-a});
min.sort(function(a,b){return a-b});
var yMax=Number(max[0]);
var yMin=Number(min[0]);
// Vérification des mots
var nbMots=this.getPageNumWords(p);
var mT=0;
for (var i=0; i<nbMots; i++) {
var leMot=this.getPageNthWord(p,i,true);
var q=this.getPageNthWordQuads(p,i);
m=(new Matrix2D).fromRotated(this,p);
mInv=m.invert();
r=mInv.transform(q);
r=r.toString();
r=r.split(",");
var xGmot=Number(r[0]);
var yGmot=Number(r[1]);
var xDmot=Number(r[6]);
var yDmot=Number(r[7]);
if (yGmot>yMax+1) continue;
else if (yGmot<yMin-1 && mT) break;
else {
for (k=2; k<highlightedPage[j].length; k+=incr) {
for (m=0; m<highlightedPage[j][k].length; m++) {
r=highlightedPage[j][k][m];
r=r.toString();
r=r.split(",");
var xG=Number(r[0]);
var yG=Number(r[1]);
var xD=Number(r[6]);
var yD=Number(r[7]);
if (xGmot>xG-1 && yGmot<yG+1 && xGmot<xD && yDmot>yD-1) {
mT++;
reponses[j][k].push(this.getPageNthWord(p,i,false));
}
}
}
}
}
}
console.clear();
console.println("Process starting: "+debut);
console.println(lesTirets);
console.println("Building the result");
var leTexte="";
for (var j=0; j<reponses.length; j++) {
var surPage=Math.floor((reponses[j].length-1)/incr)+cT;
var texteChamp="";
// Page
if (leTexte!="") {
leTexte+="\r";
texteChamp+="\r";
}
for (k=2; k<reponses[j].length; k+=incr) {
var lesMots=reponses[j][k].toString();
var lesMots=lesMots.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/,"");
var lesMots=lesMots.replace(/ ,/g," ");
var lesMots=lesMots.replace(/-,/g,"-");
var lesMots=lesMots.replace(/\(,/g,"\(");
var lesMots=lesMots.replace(/\",/g,"\"");
var lesMots=lesMots.replace(/\[,/g,"\[");
var lesMots=lesMots.replace(/\n,/g,"\n");
var lesMots=lesMots.replace(/¡,/g,"¡");
var lesMots=lesMots.replace(/¿,/g,"¿");
var adjectif=""; // Redact
// Texte
leTexte+="\r"+lesMots+"";
// Commentaire
var laReponse=reponses[j][k+1];
leTexte+="\r";
}
}
// Fin durée
console.clear();
console.println("Process starting: "+debut);
df=new Date();
fin=util.printd("dd/mm/yyyy à HH:MM",df);
console.println("Process ending: "+fin);
temps=(df.valueOf()-d0.valueOf())/1000/60;
var lesMinutes=parseInt(temps);
var lesSecondes=(temps-lesMinutes)*60;
var lesSecondes=parseInt(lesSecondes*10)/10;
var leTemps="";
if (lesMinutes>0) {
if (lesMinutes==1) {
var leTemps="1 minute";
} else {
var leTemps=lesMinutes+"minutes";
}
}
if (lesSecondes>0) {
if (lesSecondes<2) {
var leTemps=leTemps+" "+lesSecondes+" second";
} else {
var leTemps=leTemps+" "+lesSecondes+" seconds";
}
}
var leTemps=leTemps.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/gm,"");
if (leTemps.length>0) {
console.println("Process duration: "+leTemps+"\r\r");
}
console.println(leTexte);
var leFichier="Comments of "+util.printd("dd-mm-yy - HH:MM", new Date()).replace(/:/,"h");
var leRapport=leFichier+".txt";
this.createDataObject(leRapport, "©™Σ","text/html; charset=utf-16"); //
var oFile=util.streamFromString(leTexte);
this.setDataObjectContents(leRapport, oFile);
// Message final
var ouverture="You can import the attached .txt file into a spreadsheet using Unicode UTF-8 format.";
if (annots.length-cT==1) app.alert("One comment has been detailed.\r\r"+ouverture,3);
else app.alert((annots.length-cT)+" comments have been detailed.\r\r"+ouverture,3);
}
if (annots==null) app.alert("There are no comments in this document.",3)
This script is extracted from the utility and maybe some lines are not useful...
Let me know if you don't know how to use action wizzards.
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It was like a nightmare for me to extract highlighted texts from pdf files.. I tried making it with code but later on discovered readoku.com where you can export highlights into word, excel, json and csv file formats. In case anyone still searching a time saving way..
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