Good to know. I’m not on the beta but that’s useful.
Highlights can do that too on iPad but I haven’t played with setting it up to go directly into Obsidian yet. I can get text from Ggoodnotes out that way via a shortcut. I think I can eventually do the same from Highlights.
I like it better than PDF expert for annotations because it just seems tohave more optionsn colors and work better with the Apple pencil on my ipad. I use nboth it and PDF Expert on the Mac.
PDF expert on Mac is not free if I recall to export to markdown, and it isn’t supported on iOS. iOS will export the annotations however, and with a simple shortcut you can take the text from pdf and copy to clipboard and then paste into obsidian.
This gets you essentially the same output for free and more importantly from the iPad without having to pay for highlights. It’s not too bad on formatting, just a quick clean up occasionally
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PDF Expert is not free but it is not a subscription. You are correct, MD extraction is not possible in iOS.
I love your shortcut, I really need to learn how to build them! I noticed, however, that the shortcut does not extract just annotated text–which is what many of us want. It extracts all of the text on the page. Is there a way to change this to extract only highlighted text and notes?
I have not the slightest idea….I’m a simple shortcut maker only! But I like the title and that is part of the quick clean up I do to arrange things. For me I prefer to actively look back and cull as much as I can so it’s an active process anyway.
Essentially all it’s doing is copy and paste a pdf……so you can just pull up the pdf on iPad and copy the parts you want and paste it I suppose. This is just a quicker way to dump all the text elsewhere without all the manual selecting.
As I think about this, your shortcut is a very nice complement to my workflow. I use the Markdownload Safari extension to convert webpage articles to Markdown. Now, with your shortcut I can easily do the same with PDF’s on my iPad. On the Mac I use DEVONthink to convert files, including PDFs, to MD.