> On 14 Mar 2022, at 04:49, Mark Roberts <mroberts1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there some way to get more detailed information about skim notes, i.e., > other than the code framework? > > I have tried the skimnotes command line tool (e.g., the 'get' and 'format' > commands), but it seems to only output the basic information about notes, > such as the note type, page number, and note text. > > Perhaps(?) there's another mode for the skimnotes tool, but I couldn't find > it from reading the documentation. > > I'd like to get more complete data on each note, such as a timestamp, the > coordinates of the boxes that are highlighted in the PDF file, the highlight > color, and the text contained in each box. > > I assume(?) this data is in the notes file, but the skimnotes app ignores it > for now. > > I'm wondering about this because if possible I'd like to make a script that > gathers my notes for a PDF file, and tries to fix words that were broken by > hyphenation in the original PDF. If I can get the highlight boxes in the > notes file, and the text in each box, then it should be possible to check for > a hyphen character at the end of each line, and then stitch together the > words that were split across lines. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance, > > M.
The skimnotes tool is not a tool that can interpret the data. It only copies the data around to various locations that are supported (such as between extended attributes, .skim files, or within a .pdfd bundle). There is no tool to interpret he data. The Wiki has information about how the data is formatted. You could try to build your own tool to unarchive the data from that, but that would be quite a bit of work. Christiaan
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