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Menextract2pdf

Extract Mendeley annotations to PDF Files

Menextract2pdf extracts highlights and notes from the Mendeley database and adds them directly to all relevant PDF files, which can then be read by most PDF readers.

Why?

PDF highlights and notes in Mendeley are stored in the Mendeley database and can not be read by other programs. While it is possible to extract and save the annotations to the PDF file, this is a tedious manual process requiring to open every PDF and selecting export to PDF for that file. Menextract2pdf provides a bulk export functionality.

Dependencies

Menextract2pdf is written in python2.7. It requires the following packages:

• PyPDF2
• sqlite3

It further incorporate (with small adjustments) the pdfannotation.py file from the PRSAnnots project.

Usage

python menextract2pdf.py mendeley.sqlite /Destination/Dir/

where mendeley.sqlite is the mendeley database and /Destination/Dir/ is the directory where to store the annotated PDF files. By default menextract2pdf will not overwrite existing PDF files in the destination directory. To allow overwriting use the --overwrite flag.

The software is tested on Linux, but should run on Windows or Mac as well.

Versions

• 0.1 first release

Licence

The script is distributed under the GPLv3. The pdfannotations.py file is LGPLv3.

Related projects

• Mendeley2Zotero
• Adios_Mendeley