Thank you very much, Christiaan, for your detailed reply and suggestion. I will surely give that a try... Cheers
On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 1:27 PM Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 30 Dec 2023, at 10:10, haphaes haphaes <haphaes2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > —— > > > Interesting script, it shows AI picks up stuff, and does not understand > what it means. It certainly isn’t ready for programming. > > Although perhaps some ideas could be helpful. If I understand you > correctly, you have a text file containing strings to highlight (is there > no more information, like the location where they are?), and a PDF where > you want to highlight those texts. Getting the texts to highlight;ight > could be something like in this script. But the searching and highlighting > in the PDF should be a lot different. You can use the “find” command in > Skim, and then the “make new note”. On the Wiki there is a sample > AppleScript to highlight occurrences of a search string, you could use part > of that script to do this part. > > HTH, > Christiaan > > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users >
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