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Originally Posted by Quoth
Enable direct marking of real PDFs with pen and copy back.
Use of pen/annotations without having to connect to Amazon at all.
Local handwriting conversion.
Ability to edit Collections and Series without Amazon. Collections are a bit broken and Series is immutable, defined by often wrong Amazon listing.
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It seems pretty clear none of these things are on Amazon's roadmap. They take as given that people will trust them with private data, etc.
What is possible without their help?
It is possible now to create Notebooks without connection to Amazon, and to export these to FXL ePub (courtesy of @jhowell's work on KFX Input plugin). Pen annotations can be exported as well. Some scripting is needed to make it more convenient (I'm hoping to make some progress on this).
For handwriting OCR, maybe one of these projects would help:
https://github.com/topics/handwritte...ition?l=python
One might envision a round trip from PDF to PR KFX and back, with the end result being actual PDF annotations on the original PDF, without hitting Amazon services.
But the roadblocks are several: conversion to PR KFX is manual (Kindle Create has no CLI), and who (in their right mind) will write code to covert directly?
Then need to figure out how to gather up the annotations. The Pen annotations can be extracted to SVG via KFX Input plugin, and highlights/notes/bookmarks can be exported to JSON. Need to figure out how to map them to the right locations in the PDF and convert them to PDF annotations. It's not trivial, but it seems feasible.
But if I'm right Amazon will deliver this through their services in a couple of months, and most people will be perfectly happy to use these.
Collections and Series are long standing issues for side-loading and are not Scribe specific, not in scope here.