Export Highlights and Annotations from a PDF with the GoodReader App
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In this video, I’ll show
In this video, I’ll show you how I export all of my highlighted passages from a PDF on an iPad using the GoodReader app.
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*** A truncated transcript follows. A full transcript can be found at www.marblejar.net. ***
Hi, everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video I’ll show you how I export all of my highlighted passages from a PDF on an iPad using the GoodReader app.
I’m in graduate school and when I am researching for a project or paper, I spend a lot of time cut and pasting quotes or data from documents into my citations spreadsheet. When I’m getting information from an online source, sometimes I have no choice but to painstakingly cut and paste each passage. But when I’m reading a long PDF, wouldn’t it be easier to just highlight all the passages as I go and THEN export them all at one time? I figured out how to do this from a Kindle — you can see my video on that — but now I’ll show you how I do it for a PDF document on an iPad using the GoodReader app.
First of all, you’ll need to send your PDF to the GoodReader app. I’m planning to do a longer tutorial video on the GoodReader app which has LOTS of great functionality built into it, but for now, we are just going to explore this discrete function. Hit the Share button, then Copy to GoodReader. If you don’t see that option, scroll all the way to the right, hit More and make sure GoodReader is turned on.
Now, as you are reading your PDF, select the passages that you want to highlight and pick the highlighter option. The first time you do this, GoodReader will ask you if you want to annotate this file or make a copy of it — I usually see no reason to keep a pristine copy, so I choose to annotate (or modify) this file.
It’s worth noting that you can choose a different highlight color after the fact. If you want to differentiate your highlights, this is one way to do it. They will be marked differently in the export.
Okay — once you’ve done all your highlighting, it’s time to export. Poke in the middle of the screen to bring up all of your options. Choose the icon that looks like an open book for bookmarks, outlines, and annotations and go to the screen for annotations. Now choose email summary. You can just copy this from here, but I generally like to actually email it to myself to have a record somewhere else.
Now what are you going to do with the export of all of these passages? I usually keep a Google spreadsheet for research projects that contains quotes, citations, statistics, and references. You can watch my video where I explain that whole process. So, I’m going to paste these passages into a spreadsheet. Select All, Copy, Open up a new spreadsheet in Google Sheets, and Paste.
Okay — now I’ve got to get rid of some formatting issues. You can see how GoodReader formats your citations. The page number is listed and then all of the highlights within that page. Generally, I don’t need to know what page of the PDF the highlight was on, but I DO want to preserve the original order of the highlights. After all, I’m going to read through this later on and it will make way more sense if the highlights are listed in the original order. So, I add a column and number them sequentially by filling in 1 and 2 and then selecting the entire range and hitting Autofill. Now I’m going to get rid of some of this junk that I don’t need. I can get rid of these rows at the top that I don’t need by Selecting them and hitting Delete. And I can get rid of these rows at the bottom by doing the same. Now this is a little trickier since blank lines and junk are sprinkled in between each citation. I can certainly go through and select and delete each line laboriously OR I can select the column, sort from A-Z, and now all of the superfluous lines are grouped together up here with “Highlight” as the first word and all of the blank lines are grouped together down at the end. So I can select and delete. And select and delete.
Now I’m left with only the citations, but they are out of order. To restore them to their original order, just sort by Column A. If you are picky, you can renumber them so that the order numbers don’t seem so random. . . .
*** A full transcript can be found at www.marblejar.net. ***
Please subscribe and leave comments below!
*** A truncated transcript follows. A full transcript can be found at www.marblejar.net. ***
Hi, everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video I’ll show you how I export all of my highlighted passages from a PDF on an iPad using the GoodReader app.
I’m in graduate school and when I am researching for a project or paper, I spend a lot of time cut and pasting quotes or data from documents into my citations spreadsheet. When I’m getting information from an online source, sometimes I have no choice but to painstakingly cut and paste each passage. But when I’m reading a long PDF, wouldn’t it be easier to just highlight all the passages as I go and THEN export them all at one time? I figured out how to do this from a Kindle — you can see my video on that — but now I’ll show you how I do it for a PDF document on an iPad using the GoodReader app.
First of all, you’ll need to send your PDF to the GoodReader app. I’m planning to do a longer tutorial video on the GoodReader app which has LOTS of great functionality built into it, but for now, we are just going to explore this discrete function. Hit the Share button, then Copy to GoodReader. If you don’t see that option, scroll all the way to the right, hit More and make sure GoodReader is turned on.
Now, as you are reading your PDF, select the passages that you want to highlight and pick the highlighter option. The first time you do this, GoodReader will ask you if you want to annotate this file or make a copy of it — I usually see no reason to keep a pristine copy, so I choose to annotate (or modify) this file.
It’s worth noting that you can choose a different highlight color after the fact. If you want to differentiate your highlights, this is one way to do it. They will be marked differently in the export.
Okay — once you’ve done all your highlighting, it’s time to export. Poke in the middle of the screen to bring up all of your options. Choose the icon that looks like an open book for bookmarks, outlines, and annotations and go to the screen for annotations. Now choose email summary. You can just copy this from here, but I generally like to actually email it to myself to have a record somewhere else.
Now what are you going to do with the export of all of these passages? I usually keep a Google spreadsheet for research projects that contains quotes, citations, statistics, and references. You can watch my video where I explain that whole process. So, I’m going to paste these passages into a spreadsheet. Select All, Copy, Open up a new spreadsheet in Google Sheets, and Paste.
Okay — now I’ve got to get rid of some formatting issues. You can see how GoodReader formats your citations. The page number is listed and then all of the highlights within that page. Generally, I don’t need to know what page of the PDF the highlight was on, but I DO want to preserve the original order of the highlights. After all, I’m going to read through this later on and it will make way more sense if the highlights are listed in the original order. So, I add a column and number them sequentially by filling in 1 and 2 and then selecting the entire range and hitting Autofill. Now I’m going to get rid of some of this junk that I don’t need. I can get rid of these rows at the top that I don’t need by Selecting them and hitting Delete. And I can get rid of these rows at the bottom by doing the same. Now this is a little trickier since blank lines and junk are sprinkled in between each citation. I can certainly go through and select and delete each line laboriously OR I can select the column, sort from A-Z, and now all of the superfluous lines are grouped together up here with “Highlight” as the first word and all of the blank lines are grouped together down at the end. So I can select and delete. And select and delete.
Now I’m left with only the citations, but they are out of order. To restore them to their original order, just sort by Column A. If you are picky, you can renumber them so that the order numbers don’t seem so random. . . .
*** A full transcript can be found at www.marblejar.net. ***
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