Turn the highlighted text into a comment

Feature requests
#1

Besides that by highlighting text it bleeds into adjoining column (see Highlighting bleeds into adjoining column) I got rubbish text in the comments. I would like to be able to convert the highlighted text into a comment, or have the possibility to copy the highlighted text and turn it into a comment. This feature I use it a lot within Mendeley, and now I would like to have that type of functionality in Paperpile and metapdf.

Sorry guys, I tried to add a screenshoot but as a new user I was not allowed!

#2

Jobel,

Highlighted text appears in the “annotations” tab one the left (pencil/edit icon). Not only are highlighted text & comments shown together, but you can copy-paste. Does this answer your question?

#3

Thanks. I found that highlighting does create an annotation. The problem was that when I first try, instead of having the selected text as annotation on the left I got just rubbish text. Sorry that I cannot show the screenshoot as I am still considered new in the forum and I am not allowed to upload images.
So my best guess is that my problem is related with the already discussed topic “highlighting text it bleeds into adjoining column”.

#4

We hope to release an update that should fix the highlighting issue later this week. FYI, the panel on the left is editable. It is a handy feature when the text extracted from the highlighted region has some errors like it might happen for PDFs that were OCRed.

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