12-07-2006, 05:34 AM | #1 |
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Merging Scribbles with Pdf
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The addition of scribbles on pdfs is very useful to make notes and annotations on the move. But what if you want to use these notes on a laptop or desktop...? Or if you want to email them to people...? Well... Since the Irex Scribble format is xml, it is quite easy to do this... So... Here's a quick demonstration and example php script that does just that... mergeScribble.php This page has links to the requirements (PHP 5, fpdf, fpdi & PEAR Console/Getopt). I think Irex have mentioned that they will be coming out with official support some time soon, but someone might find this handy until then... Oh, and sorry Mr Turcic, but I think the beard suits you... |
12-07-2006, 09:46 AM | #2 |
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Cool utility. Question: having exported the scribbles this way, is it possible to get the Vision Objects PC software to parse them into searchable text?
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12-07-2006, 09:52 AM | #3 | |
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12-07-2006, 05:11 PM | #4 |
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Sorry if this question is incredibly naive, but...
when I click on "mergeScribble.php" it just downloads a text file "download.php" with a bunch of warnings in it. Merging the scribble xml with pdf would be extremely useful... it would reduce my paper useage by about 90% and so I am eager to try it out! |
12-07-2006, 05:38 PM | #5 |
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Give it a go now... Could've sworn that was working this morning...!
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12-07-2006, 05:44 PM | #6 |
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Got it, thanks!
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12-08-2006, 04:05 AM | #7 |
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Indeed this is a planned feature and will be available shortly
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12-08-2006, 11:44 AM | #9 |
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Updated script so that it adds bookmarks to pdfs to show which pages have Scribbles... (Can only see these in Acrobat)
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12-08-2006, 02:26 PM | #10 |
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I tried to install php and all the needed packages on my NSLU2 which has an XScale processor aswell and runs on 266Mhz.
The procces worked fine, took a while, but produced an unreadable result On my windows machine it worked like a charm. I uploaded the files in case anyone knows pdfs enough to find out what the problem might be. (floating point operations?) |
12-10-2006, 06:53 AM | #11 | |
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Error (6575): Illegal character <2e> in hex string Error (6575): Illegal character <b0> in hex string Error (6586): Illegal character '>' Error: End of file inside array Error: Leftover args in content stream Error (6909): Unknown operator 'ų00' Error (6921): Too many args in content stream |
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12-18-2006, 02:15 PM | #12 |
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I've gotten this to work at home where I've installed php5,
but doing so at work is problematic. Is anyone out there thinking of making some sort of os x package for merging pdf and scribbles? Should I start pestering iRex? |
12-19-2006, 07:09 PM | #13 | |
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So there's a challenging task to anyone who feels they're any good... Make the pdf viewer capture bookmarks and add them to a pdf... (And of course you'll need to have some indication of what/where the bookmarks are...) Last edited by jęd; 12-19-2006 at 07:13 PM. |
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12-20-2006, 03:21 AM | #14 |
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What PDF writing lib could be used in the device? Is there an Open Source one available written in C(++)? The PHP option is of course not feasible on the device itself.
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