Annotator
Obsidian recently updated their PDF viewer.
The Annotator plugin has its’ own PDF viewer.
To get the annotations you need to:
- Create a new file
- Add annotation-target into the frontmatter
- Then put the name of the PDF
Example markdown:
annotation-target: My article.pdf
When adding highlights and annotations, they are stored in the plugin viewer.
This is in the original markdown file but is riddled with code.
Tags are available in the annotation comments.
Extract PDF annotation
The extract pdf annotation plugin does exactly what it says.
Import a PDF into Obsidian with highlights.
Using the Extraction command, a new file will be created with the highlights.
A link will also be added directing back to the PDF file. NOT the highlight.
PDF Highlights
I think the PDF highlights plugin broke with the recent update to core
Core lets you:
- Copy text from a PDF
- Copy link to highlight in PDF
Once you paste the information in a note in Obsidian, you can jump to the highlighted PDF in Obsidian.
Zotero
As Zotero adds more than just PDF viewing like:
- Web clipping
- More metadata
- Tagging
- Collections
- RSS feeds
- Group Libraries
- Multiple highlight colours
- Image capture
With other options with plugins, I feel it is best suited for me.
Importing highlights can be done with the Zotero integration plugin, which I have shared before, which includes my template.