is there a pdf note taker and collector?

[cfman]

hi all,

I am looking for a note taker that can run on PDF files and capture and
collects my selections in PDF files.

The PDF annotator does in excellent job in terms of PDF annotating;

The Scrapbook does an excellent job in catpuring webpages and it also allows
annotating webpages later. It has a very handy collection management system
so the capture webpages can be stored into folders, etc.

Both are very good; however I am looking for a combination of their features
which allows me to capture a few paragraphs in the PDF file and store into
catogorized folders.

In all, I am looking for a personal document/data management software.
Scrapbook is already excellent in webpage capture and management, I hope I
can find a similar one on the PDF files; and hopefully, these can be unified
into one management software.

Currently I am doing copy and paste as images into WORD file, and it is
really tedious and horrible...

Thanks a lot

 

[Grant Robertson]

I am looking for a note taker that can run on PDF files and capture and
collects my selections in PDF files.

Well, You can use OneNote to organize all these different snippets of
text. You could copy the text out of the .PDF file and then paste it into
OneNote. You could then drag and drop the .PDF file onto OneNote 2007 and
choose the first option, "Insert a link to the original file" to, well,
do what that says. You could even choose the second option to copy the
entire .PDF file into the OneNote file kind of like an attachment to an
e-mail. Or even choose the third option which puts an image of the whole
..PDF file on the OneNote page AND does both of the above.

However, if you are looking for something that allows you to select text
in Adobe Acrobat and then just hit some hotkey to add that text to some
automatically organized collection, then I think you are out of luck.

Also, if you want to be able to link from OneNote to a specific page or
section in Adobe Acrobat then I don't think you can do that either. Now,
OneNote can link to anything that you can write a link to (just like any
web page you may create) and have that program make use of it. So you may
be able to get OneNote to jump to specific bookmarks in Adobe Acrobat but
I have never heard of it done. You would probably have to be the one to
figure that out and tell all the rest of us.

 

[Grant Robertson]

If you are looking for
a place to organize PDF's in a very efficient manner, with tags, then ON
is for you.

I do not find OneNote 2007's handling of PDF files very efficient at all.
If you want to be able to read the .PDF or search for text within it then
you have to insert it as a printout. This is a very large image of the
..PDF page, one for each page. These take up lots of space and make
scrolling through a OneNote page with many of these page images very
slow. Hopefully they will have sped this up a great deal in the RTM
version. If you want to be able to select text from the .PDF or print the
original .PDF then you need to embed it into the OneNote file as an icon.
(Printing the images from the OneNote page gives people fits.) This puts
the .PDF file both within the actual .ONE file and another copy in the
cache. So far you got 3 copies. If you back up your OneNote Notebooks
then that gets you 2 more copies (one for the images on the page and one
for the embedded file) so now you are up to 5 copies of the original .PDF
file.

You cannot apply a tag to one of the page images unless you go to the
extra trouble of selecting all of the page images and dragging them into
an existing text box while holding the shift key down. I have described
this in earlier postings. You simply cannot apply a tag to a line of text
in one of these page images because it is not really text. It is just a
picture that looks like text. The only way I have found to apply tags to
text on one of these page images is to underline the text with the pen
and then add a tag to that. However, your summary pane/page will only
show the underline. Believe me, a list of nothing but underlines is not
to very useful. I still do it sometimes because I can then click on each
different underline in turn and quickly review all the important things
that I underlined in a large .PDF that has been "Printed" into OneNote.