Hello,
I’m currently using this brilliant piece of software to read and annotate old newspapers. In my project, each item corresponds to a daily issue, and each item is made up of around 10 pages, all imported together from the same PDF source file.
On each page, I use the selection tool to highlight important sections, columns, texts, and advertisements that are relevant to my research.
What I would like to know is whether there is a way to bulk-export these selections. I’m working with long time spans (around three years), and for each newspaper issue I make at least a dozen selections, so exporting everything manually becomes quite difficult.
Thanks in advance for any light on how I could optimize this workflow !
Best,
When you export an item (or use copy/paste) the exported JSON data contains all the selections and all metadata and notes. In other words, when you export an item, you should already have all the selections for each page. You can select and export multiple items to export all the selections of all the selected items together as well. Is this what you are looking for? Or are you asking specifically to export the selections of a single photo in an item, without the selections of other photos in the same item? This is currently not supported (although there are workarounds that can achieve this).
If you’re looking to export only notes (not other metadata fields) you can also export all notes of an item via the item context menu. This stitches all the notes together and is easier to handle than the full JSON data.
For exporting both metadata and notes and retaining your structure it also depends on what format you’d like to export to. Other than JSON there is also a plugin for exporting CSV for example.