https://github.com/vonavi/pdf-show-highlights

Extract highlighted text from PDF file
https://github.com/vonavi/pdf-show-highlights

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Extract highlighted text from PDF file

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/vonavi/pdf-show-highlights
• Owner: vonavi
• Created: 2013-10-31T00:22:19.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-11-03T10:14:22.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-26T23:11:09.775Z (16 days ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 336 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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What is this?

=============

This is a simple console tool written in C, which extracts highlighted text from PDF file.

Installation

============

Be sure that you have all needed packages installed. You need `gcc` compiler, and package `poppler` (Gentoo) or `libpoppler-glib-dev` (Debian). I recommend the use of `git` utility to clone the repo:

```sh

git clone git://github.com/vonavi/pdf-show-highlights.git

cd pdf-show-highlights

```

Otherwise download source files manually.

To make the `pdf-show-highlights` executable, run

```sh

make

```

Usage

=====

To extract highlighted text from `sample.pdf`, run

```sh

./pdf-show-highlights sample.pdf

```