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/ extract_pdf_highlights.py
Created
July 15, 2024 06:15
Extract highlighted text from PDF files
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| Extract highlighted text from PDFs in the given dir and its subdirs and save them | |
| to text files with the same name as the PDFs, except with a .txt extension. | |
| Tested with Python 3.10.4 and PyMuPDF==1.24.7 | |
| Created with the help of BingAI and various Stackoverflow and GitHub answers. | |
| usage: extract_pdf_highlights.py [-h] dirname |