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Very nice initiative! Good luck with it! I know this implies complexity, but I think it'd be nice if there was a comment feature for the PDFs, perhaps even som

by Nux 12y ago

Very nice initiative! Good luck with it! I know this implies complexity, but I think it'd be nice if there was a comment feature for the PDFs, perhaps even something à la Soundcloud, i.e. per section comments. I'd love to find things such as my washing machine's manual improved by user experience through comments etc. :-D

joepie91_ 12y ago
I've actually been considering this. I'm not yet sure how to implement it, though - and while I'd love to have positional comments (perhaps 'annotations' would be a better term?), it'd require some significant modifications to the pdf.js viewer. Right now I'm quite swamped with stuff to do, but once I have some more free time I'll definitely be looking into this and some other enhancements that are currently sitting on the issue tracker.
- walterbell 12y ago
  Contact the author of this presentation, he wrote epub.js and could provide helpful advice. http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/slides/Hartnell.pdf http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/slides/Hartnell.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtj4LYBzRiw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtj4LYBzRiw Related: http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/ http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/
- oever 12y ago
  Annotation pdfs would be great. It's a feature we'd love to implement for viewerjs, easy pdf viewer for in js, too. http://viewerjs.org http://viewerjs.org.
- Hengjie 12y ago
  Flick me an email hengjie (at) notablepdf.com, I think we could provide you with a viewer for free that has annotation features but also based on PDF.js so that you can easily switch it over.
jordanthoms 12y ago
We have that in Notable PDF ( http://notablepdf.com http://notablepdf.com ). We don't require that you host the file with us either - Files are fingerprinted, and comments can be made attached to that fingerprint (private by default, but can be made public to anyone who has the file). We're focusing on annotating documents within teams, schools, etc, but the public annotations to improve documents (à la rapgenius) is something we are thinking about. (We actually have the ability to share files with a link too)

by Nux 12y ago

joepie91_ 12y ago

I've actually been considering this. I'm not yet sure how to implement it, though - and while I'd love to have positional comments (perhaps 'annotations' would be a better term?), it'd require some significant modifications to the pdf.js viewer. Right now I'm quite swamped with stuff to do, but once I have some more free time I'll definitely be looking into this and some other enhancements that are currently sitting on the issue tracker.

walterbell 12y ago
Contact the author of this presentation, he wrote epub.js and could provide helpful advice. http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/slides/Hartnell.pdf http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/slides/Hartnell.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtj4LYBzRiw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtj4LYBzRiw Related: http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/ http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/
oever 12y ago
Annotation pdfs would be great. It's a feature we'd love to implement for viewerjs, easy pdf viewer for in js, too. http://viewerjs.org http://viewerjs.org.
Hengjie 12y ago
Flick me an email hengjie (at) notablepdf.com, I think we could provide you with a viewer for free that has annotation features but also based on PDF.js so that you can easily switch it over.

jordanthoms 12y ago

We have that in Notable PDF ( http://notablepdf.com http://notablepdf.com ). We don't require that you host the file with us either - Files are fingerprinted, and comments can be made attached to that fingerprint (private by default, but can be made public to anyone who has the file). We're focusing on annotating documents within teams, schools, etc, but the public annotations to improve documents (à la rapgenius) is something we are thinking about. (We actually have the ability to share files with a link too)