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Originally Posted by tomsem
I doubt that it's Print Replica, which lets you search for text, select phrases and add notes to them. (why do you think it is?)
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I based that on
post #355 in this thread by angryAspect which has files extracted from a Scribe that resulted from sending an EPUB and a PDF. The EPUB was converted to KFX reflowable format and the PDF was converted to KFX print replica format.
I also base it on having compared the Scribe firmware with the firmware used by other Kindles. The only sign of handwritten annotation support I found was in the part of the firmware that handles KFX format.
It would be good to have more data on how this works. I suggest that you connect your Scribe to a computer via USB and see what format actually results on the device from PDFs you send.
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Originally Posted by tomsem
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KFX print replica works similarly, but not quite the same, as that book.
In KFX print replica each page is rendered from a PDF file embedded within the KFX document. However the PDF is only used as a source of page images. Other functionality, such as links and text for search and dictionary lookup, are produced by adding an invisible fixed layout overlay on top of the page image. I am wondering whether handling that overlay is not yet working properly on the Scribe.
Or perhaps it depends on how the original PDF was structured. Maybe the conversion process cannot extract the text from some PDFs.
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Originally Posted by tomsem
Or maybe they are still working on adding pen annotation to the legacy PDF (FoxIt) support, which would be the right way to do it.
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Possible, but highly unlikely in my opinion.