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Originally Posted by WillAdams
Yeah, one can apparently directly write on PDFs --- curious as to how such annotations are stored, and how one gets them off the Scribe and onto a desktop.
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On every device I've used it adds a layer to PDF (so protected ones don't work). Just an image. So "export" is copy the entire PDF to PC or another device. No actual text.
So only real ebooks (mobi, azw3/KF8, epub) have actual text annotations that can be imported to a text editor or copy/pasted to edit the Wordprocessor source the ebook was made from.
PDFs are essentially not real ebooks, but for print, or onscreen preview/view of a particular paper size.
Unless you have handwriting recognition or text entry you can't have a text file. Also unlike an ebook a separate text file of the annotation for a PDF might not easily have source text and location. So annotation like a ballpoint pen on paper (no actual computer text) is actually reasonable for PDFs. PDFs are ghastly to seriously proof and annotate. We only proof & annotate epubs and only check PDFs for format errors, never ever content.