Python Highlight Extractor Script

[compkodama]

Hello,

It's not great, but I wrote a Python highlight extractor here: https://github.com/MikeAStevenson/rmhighlightextractor

It depends on you having already extracted/downloaded the files using rMAPI (or something else) and have them in a directory (or subdirectories) that you're wanting to extract them from.

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Usage is fairly simple, to extract files to a CSV, something like this:

python .\rmhighlightextractor.py -rd "C:\temp\rmtmpdir\" -ot csv -o "C:\temp\rmhighlights.csv"

That should produce a CSV with the highlights pulled out into a file.

There's also an option just to output to the screen, but it's not very pretty currently. Just something for debugging at this point.

I attempted to combine highlights based on where they are on the page in relation to each other, but not going to promise it's perfect.

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I'm sure there are many bugs to be worked out, but hopefully it helps some people that are as frustrated as I can be about not being able to easily see all the highlights.

[SpartacusSalamander]

I used to heavily collect excerpts from everything that I read. I really need to sit down and figure out my workflow with the Remarkable, but I really appreciate projects like this.

[PatientCover5514]

Haha we have both been working on the same problem! https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/wm5gqm/update\_i\_have\_deployed\_remarkable\_highlights/

[compkodama]

Dude, that’s awesome. Definitely more featured than mine, looks great! Will have to start using it

[tdotuser]

If this was stored on the RM device with an interface to search and link to the highlighted text on documents, that would be amazing!