pdf-tools
Emacs support library for PDF files. (by politza)
org-pdftools
A custom org link type for pdf-tools (by fuxialexander)
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pdf-tools
Posts with mentions or reviews of pdf-tools.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-12.
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(re)build epdfinfo progam fails because poppler-private headers not found
Also https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/issues/706
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Do all Emacs versions have blurry pdfs in pdf-tools on M1 Macbooks?
;; Fix blurry PDFs on MacOS. ;; From https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/issues/51 (setq pdf-view-use-scaling t)
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Write research paper notes/summaries in emacs
First things first, install pdf-tools, a great Emacs package for viewing pdfs. The default pdf viewer Docview is very limited so you should definitely get this package.
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What different before you were using emacs?
nov.el is pretty nice, although pdf-tools makes PDFs tolerable.
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pdf-tools got a new maintainer!
It looks enjoy pdf-tools got a new maintainer and he already changed the the melpa ⠀recipe, so you can get it via the package manager. I think this is a good development. My impression is, that he is new as an Emacs package maintainer, so please be kind and supportive, so he will stay on it for a while. :)
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Okular – The Universal Document Viewer
I have been using emacs pdf-tools lately and really enjoying it https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools
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PDF Note Style UI/UX in Remnote
View, annotate PDFs and more with Emac's pdf-tools. There is also the built-in doc-view.
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Cut and Paste from a PDF in Emacs
[pdf-tools](https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools) will let you do that.
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(global-linum-mode 1) causing issues with pdf viewing
I tried setting (add-hook 'pdf-view-mode-hook (lambda() (linum-mode -1))), which I found here. But it doesn't seem to do anything.
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Disable embedded code execution in pdfs?
doc-view.el aside, there's https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools which may have its own set of issues.
org-pdftools
Posts with mentions or reviews of org-pdftools.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-04.
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Integrate Zotero pdf notes with org roam
An alternative is to open PDFs, from Zotero or from anywhere else, with Emacs' pdf-tools (https://github.com/vedang/pdf-tools). If you annotate the pdf, those annotations are part of the pdf. And you can also use org-noter (https://github.com/weirdNox/org-noter) and org-noter-pdftools (https://github.com/fuxialexander/org-pdftools; but see https://github.com/fuxialexander/org-pdftools/issues/93#issuecomment-1493314118 if you use the new org-noter from https://github.com/org-noter/org-noter).
- Learning maths.
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Org-roam, zotero, and org-noter workflow for scientific research and citations (+bibtex)?
Periodically, I go through the pdfs I've read (I have a collection in Zotero for the stuff I am in the process of reading) and I use org-noter-pdftools (see https://github.com/fuxialexander/org-pdftools ; this is different from, and extends and depends on, org-noter which, by the way, has recently got new maintainers) to extract all annotations in the pdf to a note that is associated to each pdf. One to one mapping here: one pdf file - one .org file for notes. These notes are basically just org(-roam) files that store the annotations for easy searching (see below) and to allow my linking to specific, individual, highlights (or text annotations). I think that initially setting everything up to my satisfaction was a little bit confusing (e.g., the names of some functions I think are the same between org-noter and org-noter-pdftools and sometimes it was unclear to me the differences in functionality between the two packages); but now it works flawlessly. From org-noter-pdftools I specially like how easy it is to get all the highlights, text annotations, etc (not manual scribbling, of course, and see also below for "typewritter" annotations) into an org-roam note that links directly to the exact location in the pdf.
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Share your workflows for highlighting books - roam compatible epub reader with highlighting? nov.el / ereader
Check out my screencast on org-noter. I don't think anything else comes close to this kind of workflow. Unfortunately it's not production ready yet. There's a related project org-noter--pdftools, I don't recall what it's state is.
- What’s New in Emacs 28.1?
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Not being able to install and use pdf-tools or anything related to org-pdf
First I tried config from here - https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/19686/how-to-use-pdf-tools-pdf-view-mode-in-emacs but the package in unmaintained, so I used https://github.com/fuxialexander/org-pdftools
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Workflow For Notetaking And Appending
[2] https://github.com/fuxialexander/org-pdftools
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pdf-tools and org-pdftools you can also consider the following projects:
HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
org-noter - Emacs document annotator, using Org-mode
dot-doom - My Doom Emacs config files. Mirrored from https://gitlab.com/zzamboni/dot-doom
straight.el - 🍀 Next-generation, purely functional package manager for the Emacs hacker.
org-brain - Org-mode wiki + concept-mapping
org-roam - Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode
org-capture-ref - Extract metadata/bibtex info from websites for org-capture
build-emacs-for-macos - Somewhat hacky script to automate building of Emac.app on macOS.
.emacs.d - Nate Eagleson's Emacs config.
helm-bibtex - Search and manage bibliographies in Emacs
prettier-emacs - Minor mode to format JS code on file save
pdf-tools vs HomeBrew
org-pdftools vs org-noter
pdf-tools vs dot-doom
org-pdftools vs straight.el
pdf-tools vs org-noter
org-pdftools vs org-brain
pdf-tools vs org-roam
org-pdftools vs org-capture-ref
pdf-tools vs build-emacs-for-macos
org-pdftools vs .emacs.d
pdf-tools vs helm-bibtex
org-pdftools vs prettier-emacs