No effect on clicking extract PDF icon

[justresearch547]

Hello @akaalias,

Thank you for creating the plug in.

I have been trying to use it but it does not seem to work. These are the steps I have followed:

1. I highlight the text on PDF (on a PDF preview or acrobat reader)
2. I import the pdf into obsidian by dragging it.
3. I preview the pdf into obsidian
4. I click the pdf icon on the left bar.
5. No new file is created with the annotations.

Could you suggest how to address the issue?

Thank you. Regards

[justresearch547]

Hello @akaalias ,

I realised that the plug-in works when one opens the PDF as an attachment in Obsidian. (not while its being viewed as an embedded note in a note)

Is there a way to make it work on the notes page itself?

Thank you.

Regards

[JavanTang]

I also met the same problem.

Obsidian version: v0.12.19

[frangkli]

Same problem. Obsidian version: v0.13.23 Highlighted PDF with Adobe Acrobat, shows highlight in Obsidian preview but nothing happens when I press the PDF icon.

[mauroentropico]

Hello @akaalias ,

I realised that the plug-in works when one opens the PDF as an attachment in Obsidian. (not while its being viewed as an embedded note in a note)

Is there a way to make it work on the notes page itself?

Thank you.

Regards

Same problem

[huyz]

If you see no effect, it's likely because there's some sort of error. So what I had to do is open up the Dev Tools Console and that's when I saw my specific errors:

[sparky005]

I'm having a similar issue, console error is below. It seems like this plugin doesn't properly parse all PDFs.

plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:78714 Error: ReferenceError: spaceWidth is not defined
eval @ plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:78714
Promise.then (async)
eval @ plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:78711
step @ plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:81
eval @ plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:62
eval @ plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:55
__awaiter @ plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:51
PDFAnnotationsManager.fetchRawAnnotationsFromPDF @ plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:78646
eval @ plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:78803
step @ plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:81
eval @ plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:62
fulfilled @ plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:52
Promise.then (async)
step @ plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:54
eval @ plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:55
__awaiter @ plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:51
ExtractPDFHighlightsPlugin.processPDFHighlights @ plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:78788
eval @ plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:78780
plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:78755 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'filter')
    at PDFAnnotationsManager.filterRawAnnotations (plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:78755:57)
    at ExtractPDFHighlightsPlugin.eval (plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:78806:69)
    at step (plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:81:23)
    at Object.eval [as next] (plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:62:53)
    at fulfilled (plugin:obsidian-extract-pdf-highlights:52:58)