reMarkableWeb VS reader

There's a web-app (https://remarkable-web.vercel.app) which allows you to export highlighted text. It is useful but not perfect. For some weeks (or months) it disappeared. I just ask for an official, reliable, way of doing something most 30$ ebooks can do.

I am currently reading many books and papers and use highlighting a lot. My life would be a lot better if I could automatically extract the highlighted text. I tried several (by now outdated) solutions like Biff (https://github.com/soulisalmed/biff ), RCU and https://remarkable-web.vercel.app/ . The first two are apparently outdated, and the last I can't connect to (and all my files are >4 MB, so manual select doesn't work).

Since I discovered this app (https://remarkable-web.vercel.app/), I've been using it to extract some highlights.

I'm still on 2.15 and my work relies on https://remarkable-web.vercel.app/ to extract highlights from PDFs I mark up. Seems like reMarkable's updates have broken the directory browsing feature there, but I can still upload reMarkable PDFs manually and get my highlights.

They also have appeared to change the web api such that it has broken https://remarkable-web.vercel.app/.

I can't export any annotated pdfs since the beta installed. With the desktop app or the remarkable itself. Also https://remarkable-web.vercel.app/ seems to not work with the beta. So far the beta has completely broken the pdf annotation workflow as well as problemitizing reading pdfs.

Digest -- that also extracts all your highlights and notes for easy review. Here a workaround is to use https://remarkable-web.vercel.app for extracting highlights, and inserting blank pages in pdfs for more extensive notes.

However, recently, I discovered a non-hack app that allows me to extract my highlights, export them as a Markdown file (there's the possibility to connect Readwise) and use them in Obsidian.

Standard recognisable highlights (I made a post about it). Recently I discovered Remarkable-web, a very useful tool to extract my highlights. However this should be supported by the very company.

And a Go library: https://github.com/ddvk/reader

Python library for v6 files: https://github.com/ricklupton/rmscene Go library: https://github.com/ddvk/reader

If it's running v2, pretty much anything here will be able to read them. If it's running v3, your options are much more limited at the moment, for example this library or this library.

ddvk published his reverse engineered ReMarkable v6 file format. His parser is available on Github.

I'm not sure what the current state of the art is, but there's some progress on https://github.com/ddvk/reader , and there's always the Discord server for more up to date info.

As I mentioned elsewhere, the v3.0 .rm format is totally different from the 2.x. First attempt to rev eng it is https://github.com/ddvk/reader AFAIK.

I had a closer look into the new format and it's indeed completely different from the one used in v2.x :-( This will take a lot of work to reengineer. Fortunately, as the remy developer told me, at ddvk there is a work in progress to analyse it. Still a long way to go, it seems.