#!/usr/bin/env python
# see http://socialdatablog.com/extract-pdf-annotations.html
myxkfolder="/home/steve/xk/" #you need to set this to where you want your to-dos to appear
import poppler, os.path, os, time, datetime
for root, dirs, files in os.walk('./'):
for lpath in files:
fullpath=os.path.realpath(os.path.join(root, lpath))
mtime=os.path.getmtime(fullpath)
# print("Opening: ..."+fullpath)
## check if size is not less than 0 bytes
## needs to be TOLOWER
if lpath.endswith('.pdf') :#& os.stat(fullpath).st_size>0:
x=''
path = 'file://%s' % fullpath
myino=os.stat(fullpath).st_ino
# print("Found PDF:..."+fullpath)
# print "Size: ... "+os.stat(fullpath).st_size
try:
doc = poppler.document_new_from_file(path, None)
except:
print "some pdf problem"
else:
pages = [doc.get_page(i) for i in range(doc.get_n_pages())]
for page_no, page in enumerate(pages):
items = [i.annot.get_contents() for i in page.get_annot_mapping()]
items = [i for i in items if i]
for j in items:
# print "Found annotation: ... " + j
print path
j = j.replace("\r\n"," ")
j = j.replace("\r\n"," ")
x= x+"\n\n"+"'%s' (page %s)" % (j,page_no + 1)
# print xk
if "xk" in j:
#xk= xk+"\n\n"+"'%s' (page %s)" % (j,page_no + 1)
print j
g = open(myxkfolder+j+" "+lpath+" p. "+str(page_no)+'.txt', 'w')
g.write(j)
g.close()
if x!='':
f = open(os.path.splitext(fullpath)[0]+'.annotations.txt', 'w')
f.write(x)
f.close()
os.utime(os.path.splitext(fullpath)[0]+'.annotations.txt', (mtime,mtime))
# This is based on code from Marwan Alsabbagh, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13748242/extracting-pdf-annotations-comments, thanks