Extract Annotated Pages ONLY

[josh katz]

This feature would be a huge time-saver for me. In my work, I often annotate PDF documents that have hundreds of pages. Going back and pulling only those pages on which I have commented is tedious, and I sometimes miss pages that have annotations. I am aware of the Summarize Comments feature - this is not a viable workaround, however, because it flattens the comments, and there is no feature to pull only the document pages (without the separate comment pages).

As a potential selling point, if this feature is incorporated I plan to ask the IT head for my 100+ practice group to provide product licenses for all of our members.

Best,
Josh

[Will - Tracker Supp]

Hi Josh,

Thanks for the email - We've received quite a number of requests for this and similar items, so I've made a formal feature request for this. Please note that I still cannot guarantee the implementation of this feature, that is ultimately up to the development team.

Thanks,

[josh katz]

Thanks Will - much appreciated.

[Will - Tracker Supp]

[josh katz]

Just wanted to revive this feature request and reiterate that this feature would be very useful for my and my colleague's work. It continues to surprise me that of all of the complex comment extraction features, this is not one of them.

Thanks,
J

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hi All,

The feature is not yet available e.g. in "Document -> Extract Pages", but here is a small script that will go through a file, and remove all the pages that do not have annotations on them. You can then save the reminder (which will be equivalent to "extract pages with annotations only") under a new file name.

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for (var i = this.numPages-1; i>0; i--){
  var annots = this.getAnnots({nPage: i})
  if (annots == null) {
    this.deletePages({nStart:i, nEnd:i})
  }
}

To execute that code - open the JS console (Ctrl+J) and paste it there, then hit the run button. Make sure to not overwrite the original file, as if you do and close the Editor - the page removal will be permanent and non reversible!

Regards,
Stefan

[josh katz]

This is great! Is there a way to save this code as a new button/command?

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hello Josh,

Yes there is - please see this topic on how you can add custom buttons to the Editor:
https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/ ... 62&t=28256

Regards,
Stefan

[josh katz]

Thanks Stefan. I followed the instructions precisely but the button is not showing up. Do you know where it should be (or how I can activate it)?

[Patrick-Tracker Supp]

Hi Josh,

It looks like there was a tiny mistake in the instructions. Please make sure you add the JavaScript file to C:\Program Files\Tracker Software\PDF Editor\JavaScripts

I hope this helps!

[josh katz]

Yes, I did do this (I was able to figure it out from a related thread). Still no luck!

[josh katz]

I figured it out - it looks like I needed to add some additional code describing the button/function. Here is what I used:

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function ExtractCPO()
{
for (var i = this.numPages-1; i>0; i--){
  var annots = this.getAnnots({nPage: i})
  if (annots == null) {
    this.deletePages({nStart:i, nEnd:i})
  }
}
}

app.addToolButton({
cName: "ExtractCPOs",
// oIcon: oIcon,
cExec: "ExtractCPO()",
cTooltext: "Extract CPOs",
cEnable: true,
nPos: 0
});

[Patrick-Tracker Supp]

Hi Josh,

Well done! Thanks for posting the script too. I am sure that will prove useful to others as well.

Cheers!

[TrackerSupp-Daniel]

Hello everyone,
I am happy to announce that this function is now available in the PDF-XChange Editor from build 327 and up. Simply open the thumbnails pane (Ctrl+T) and from the options menu, hover over select and click pages with comments:

DMKB18November725.png

After than simply open the print or extract dialog, and choose the "Selected pages" option.

DMKB18November726.png

Enjoy!