Allowing "screenshot" of the page inside a rectangle/square box to capture images/charts/diagrams

[dummifiedme]

Benefits

Having a way to include the screenshot of the region inside a created square(or rectangle) would help in

• Extracting useful images or charts off the pdf by simply drawing a rectangle around it.
• Extracting hand written scribbles or diagrams by simple enclosing them in a rectangle.

Image naming and handling

The extracted images could be sent directly to the asset/image/attachment location in the vault while assigning a incremental naming to them or based on the page numbers or plain random just like what obsidian does when pasting.

Example

PDF sample

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I had implemented it in a crude way but using Python, and I am a newbie to programming. If you could work on something like this, it would be really helpful as I have a lot of diagrams that I now manually screenshot and paste. This could make life easier for everyone who need to extract images or diagrams.

Also:

1. A post I wrote on Forum : https://forum.obsidian.md/t/discussion-extracting-annotations-from-pdfs/24411
2. A pdfAnnotate library that I found which might be useful : https://github.com/highkite/pdfAnnotate

[huyz]

Is this the same ask as #15?

[avigilante]

Also check this library: https://github.com/mgmeyers/pdfannots2json

[HeyJwd]

Have been looking for this feature to add into an annotation -> export workflow, especially as they pertain to diagrams, etc per @dummifiedme 's request. I believe that I have seen some of this functionality in Adobe Acrobat for either Windows or Mac, can't recall exactly. No obsidian plugins or Android solutions are known to me at this time, besides manual screenshotting into a target .md buffer