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Originally Posted by janek
No, you can't highlight text on scanned (non-OCRed) pdfs. But still you can use scribbling (ie drawing shapes and handwriting things on top of pdfs) to mark the bits of text. After you are finished it is possible to merge pdf with your scribbles and read/store it on the PC. On Windows, there's a problem with printing the annotated pdfs, though.
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No serious problem, though... both windows (PDFXChangeViewer) and Linux (xournal) have ready available software to print (or flatten) annotated (merged) documents.
The annotated documents can be viewed with virtually any pdf viewer/editor.
I just found out that PDFXChangeViewer even lets you _edit_ highlit/annotated comments. (If anyone knows a software in Linux that does this, I'd be very much interested - please let me know, or - even better
- put a link into the Tips'n'Tricks or Software Wiki page
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Originally Posted by janek
And no, Boox does not have an OCR function. You need to OCR your paper before uploading it to Boox with OCR software, if you want highlighting. (it would indeed be nice if Boox had such an option, ie if the firmware integrated software like tesseract)
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I'm personally quizzy as to whether one wants to do OCR on an embedded ARM device with 256MB RAM... but ok... :P
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Originally Posted by janek
And yes, it works fine, except for one ugly bug which occurs on some PDFs where highlighted text is saved without spaces. It is unclear though if this is related to Boox or PDFs. Annotations work just fine, they are saved as a separate text file along your comments, and can be transferred to PC and edited there. Reports are, they can also be merged with original pdf, but I didn't try that.
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They can be (see my comment above) with FW1.7RC26/03/12.
The space-omission bug is really annoying, but Booxtor claims that even other products have it, which likely makes it an Adobe SDK bug, indeed.
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Originally Posted by janek
From what I know m90 had many issues and is not developed any further. I
strongly recommend m92.
Cost-wise, my experience as a month-and-a-half owner of Boox is very positive. It improved my research workflow significantly and i would definitely buy it again. About learning purposes I'm not sure, but I can imagine that you can use highlighting/annotations as a tool to select important information and only review your highlights for your exams etc
Also eye strain factor is relevant. I'm able to read more on Boox than on a laptop/tablet.
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So it may appeal to your specific purposes or not. (If you are looking for a tablet rather than a pdf reader, m92 will definitely disappoint you)
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I fully agree.
The reason to buy the M92 is the display. It's not flashy, no app-store, and I wouldn't dare try watching movies on it *g*.
At the moment, Onyx seems to focus on extending functionality.
The existing part is indeed buggy to a certain extend, but functional and usable (All problems I encountered seem deterministic and can be easily worked around).
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Originally Posted by janek
Yeah, there is no FAQ (perhaps one needs to be created?). But this forum is full of user testimonials, just browse a little.
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Go ahead - the Wiki's there (and by no means mine alone
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Cheers!