Hi, Apparently, what I would like to seek help about is quite similar to the issue raised here: https://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/mailman/message/37743641/
Specifically, what I need to do is the following: If I have a lot of pdf files to read, here is what I usually do; I convert them both to text-based pdfs and epubs, the same OCR app and then send the epub file to Kindle using amazon's dedicated app. ... Then comes reading / highlighting on the Kindle and transferring the "My Clippings" file in the kindle to the computer. Using a website I can get transfer the highlights for only one book to, say, a text file. Now, what would be incredibly useful is if after opening the pdf file on Skim, I could have an applescript search for each highlight on the text file in the pdf on skim and highlight it... Further, if for one single highlight the script cannot find it (probably because, it's too long) the script can reduce the number of the words to look for and then add the highlight once it finds a match. (e.g. a single highlight on Kindle: "All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal. " When the script doesn't find a match for the whole sentence, it will search for a phrase with a reduced number of words, say: "All men are mortal, Socrates is a man," if still no match, reduce 4 words again: Hi, Apparently, what I would like to seek help about is quite similar to the issue raised here: https://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/mailman/message/37743641/ Specifically, what I need to do is the following: If I have a lot of pdf files to read, here is what I usually do; I convert them both to text-based pdfs and epubs, the same OCR app and then send the epub file to Kindle using amazon's dedicated app. ... Then comes reading / highlighting on the Kindle and transferring the "My Clippings" file in the kindle to the computer. Using a website I can get the highlights for only one book... Now, what would be incredibly useful is if I after opening the pdf files on Skim, I could then get the highlights for the single book on a text file and have an applescript search for each highlight on the text file in the pdf on skim and highlight it... Further, if for one single highlight the script cannot find it (probably because, it's too long) the script can reduce the number of the words to look for and then add the highlight once it finds a match. (e.g. a single highlight on Kindle: "All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal. " When the script doesn't find a match for the whole sentence, it will search for a phrase with a reduced number of words, say: "All men are mortal, Socrates is a man," if still no match, delete the last 4 words from the search phrase again etc "All men are mortal," But stop there, don't search for less than, say, e.g 4 words Once it finds the phrase, the script will have skim highlight it. And then will do the same for the second highlight from the Kindle/ ereader/ any textfile separated by "paragraphs" etc. What do you think? Any chance for that? I was hoping that would be possible nowadays and asked, of course, what else, ChatGPT Below is its reply: --well, it doesn't work.. Many thanks everyone! -- Specify the paths to your text file and PDF file set textFilePath to "/path/to/your/textfile.txt" set pdfFilePath to "/path/to/your/pdfdocument.pdf" -- Read lines from the text file set linesToSearch to paragraphs of (read file textFilePath) -- Iterate through each line and search for it in the PDF using Skim Reader repeat with currentLine in linesToSearch set searchString to currentLine -- Use a shell command to search for the text in the PDF set searchCommand to "grep -n " & quoted form of searchString & " " & quoted form of pdfFilePath set searchResult to do shell script searchCommand -- Extract the line number from the search result set lineNumber to first word of searchResult -- Use SkimNotes command-line tool to add annotation to the PDF set skimCommand to "skimnotes add -page " & lineNumber & " " & quoted form of pdfFilePath do shell script skimCommand end repeat ----
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