Matt Price <mopto...@gmail.com> writes: > I would like to be able to insert into an org-buffer the text extracted from > a pdf file. PDF-Tools ( > https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/) provides some excellent tools for > doing this. I've written > (well, msotly stolen) a defun that finds all my highlights and returns them > in the form of an org > heading: > > (defun pdf-annot-export-as-org-heading (pdfpath) > ...) > ------------- > > I'm sure it is very clumsy, but it sort of works. I would like to be able to > call this function from a > source block: > > #+BEGIN_SRC elisp > (pdf-annot-export-as-org-heading > "/home/matt/HackingHistory/readings/latour-pandoras-hope.pdf") > (pdf-annot-export-as-org-heading > "/home/matt/HackingHistory/readings/historical-authority-hampton.pdf") > #+END_SRC > > The results are close to, but not precisely, what I want: > > #+RESULTS: > #+begin_example > ** historical-authority-hampton > > > ([[file:///home/matt/HackingHistory/readings/historical-authority-hampton.pdf] > [historical-authority-hampton]], 1) > > In the Tudor palace at Hampton Court, there is a.... > ... > #+end_example > > (a) I only get the last command, because I guess :results value only reports > the final returned value. > But :results output gets me nothing. What should I be doing?
Have two source blocks? Or use :results output and output the string with (princ string)? > (b) the whole output is wrapped in an example block, which I don't want. Can > I do something to fix > this? Maybe :results value raw or :results value verbatim - untested. I can never remember the right combo off the top of my head. > also, (c): I'd rather set the level of the org heading based on context. Can > I do that when I call from > a source block? Should I maybe be doing this some other way (e.g., jsut write > an interactive function > and call it with M-x? But I like being able to assemble all the readings at > one go, if possible. > Pass the level as a parameter? -- Nick
