I wanted to try to extract highlighted text from a pdf, so I started looking at pdfminer but could not find any documentation for this specific function.
Is this possible at all?
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Hi! Did you found an answer or documentation? – Denti Sep 28 '17 at 08:14
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Not pdfminer, but you might be interested in [How to extract Highlighted Parts from PDF files](https://stackoverflow.com/q/9099497/562769) – Martin Thoma Sep 01 '20 at 10:46
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Not sure but please have a look at the script mentioned in this code listing.
Edit: I had to edit my answer because some wiser guys negatively graded my answer, I am trying to provide a solution to a problem that has had no answer for more than a year.
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Thanks, I tried by could not get hold of pypoppler (see the error here https://gist.github.com/lambdamusic/b685596d492335838098) – magicrebirth Nov 20 '15 at 14:18
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I am actively looking for a solution for this issue Poppler can be found here:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-poppler-qt4/ I can not find proper documentation. They send the reader to the C+ docs which are chinese to me :-) Currently looking for other Python solutions – MiniMe Nov 20 '15 at 14:57
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Some clues here: http://poppler.freedesktop.narkive.com/7KbUnSay/python-pdf-hightlighted-text-not-annotation-popup-how-to-extract-it-text and an example here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21050551/extracting-text-from-higlighted-text-using-poppler-qt4-python-poppler-qt4 – MiniMe Nov 20 '15 at 15:07
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I got this to work, but unfortunately it does not extract highlights made with OSx Preview – magicrebirth Nov 20 '15 at 17:08
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Was it difficult to install Qt4 and poppler? I am at work and I could not test any of the above – MiniMe Nov 20 '15 at 17:59