Exported files without text

[falbarelli]

Hello, thanks for this useful tool.

I am using ubuntu and I used the script "menextract2pdf__overwrite.sh" to overwrite my mendeley library (with the aim of importing it in Zotero, using their native Mendeley importer).

Unfortunately all the pdf files with comments do not have any text at all, you can only see the highlighted portions (but with no text).
Is this a known problem?

See one example file here.

[cycomanic]

OK that's interesting. I'll have a look. What's the output of the script?

[falbarelli]

Hi, sorry for the late reply. I did not have time to play with the script again. However, I run the actual python script instead of the bash script for overwriting and it worked fine on the same machine... weird.
I'll try again in the next days and I'll let you know.

[caufieldjh]

I experienced the same issue. Running "menextract2pdf__overwrite.sh" or the "menextract2pdf.py" with --overwrite both produced files with only annotations and none of the original document content. Without any attempt to overwrite (i.e., just running menextract2pdf.py) the process completes as expected.
It's easy enough to overwrite manually, so thanks for making this script to take care of the difficult part!

[chuchong]

I met the same problem, too. A brutal force solution can be like this:

you can change line 170

outpdf.write(open(fn_out, "wb"))

into

outpdf.write(open(fn_out+"new.pdf", "wb"))

and delete line 165

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