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akaalias / obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights

Extract highlights, underlines and annotations from your PDFs into Obsidian
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duplicate highlights when extracting a second time #21

Open uwe999 opened 2 years ago

uwe999 commented 2 years ago

I was trying to import a PDF book with 300 pages/5mb. It took about a minute for the note with the extracted highlights to load. After reading and highlighting more pages in the PDF I clicked the "PDF" button again and it appended all highlights below the original highlights. Maybe my use case isn't a good use case for this plugin?

luccomo commented 2 years ago

I have a similar problem where if i do three sessions of Highlights I will get 3 times the first sessions highlights e.g. Session 1 = I do 2 highlights Session 2 = i do 3 highlights Session 3 = i do 1 highlight after each session i run the PDF Highlight icon result on my page

AFTER First Extraction the note looks like: SOURCE HEADER1 PDF Link.pdf highlighted text 1 highlighted text 2

AFTER SECOND Extraction the note looks like: SOURCE HEADER1 PDF Link.pdf highlighted text 1 highlighted text 2

SOURCE HEADER2 PDF Link.pdf highlighted text 3 highlighted text 4 highlighted text 5

AFTER Third Extraction the note looks like: SOURCE HEADER1 PDF Link.pdf highlighted text 1 highlighted text 2

SOURCE HEADER2 PDF Link.pdf highlighted text 3 highlighted text 4 highlighted text 5

SOURCE HEADER3 PDF Link.pdf highlighted text 6

issam-seghir commented 1 year ago

I was trying to import a PDF book with 300 pages/5mb. It took about a minute for the note with the extracted highlights to load. After reading and highlighting more pages in the PDF I clicked the "PDF" button again and it appended all highlights below the original highlights. Maybe my use case isn't a good use case for this plugin?

Try to delete the old note with the extracted highlights and then click the "PDF" button again repeat this step every time you add new highlights in the PDF