Hacker News: highlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=highlHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 01 May 2026 23:30:23 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by highl in "Highlighting PDF for CoreNLP"]]>Step by step guide to processing PDF with CoreNLP and using its output to highlight text in the PDF document.

]]>Sun, 09 Jul 2017 13:31:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14729645highlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14729645https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14729645<![CDATA[Highlighting PDF for CoreNLP]]>Article URL: https://www.pdf-highlighter.com/highlighting-pdf-for-core-nlp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14729642

Points: 4

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]]>Sun, 09 Jul 2017 13:31:23 +0000https://www.pdf-highlighter.com/highlighting-pdf-for-core-nlp/highlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14729642https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14729642<![CDATA[New comment by highl in "Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?"]]>End users love it when they can open found PDF document on a page where search terms occur and when they can easily jump between matches. Very useful feature when documents have thousands of pages although some clients use it even with single page document archives.

Earlier versions of Acrobat Reader had support for term highlighting using “PDF Highlight File Format” which is XML-like file specifying word offsets in page. There are search solutions that relied on this feature but Adobe deprecated it with Acrobat Reader X.

Anyway, my solution re-enables search term highlighting in PDF and does not require any special viewer – web based viewer [1] works on both desktop and mobile web browsers. It's easy to integrate with existing search solutions and can use either Adobe's PDF highlights file as input or highlight for a search query.

[1] http://pdf-highlighter.com/docs/Highlighting_PDF_Viewer.html

]]>Tue, 05 Jul 2016 14:33:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12036670highlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12036670https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12036670<![CDATA[New comment by highl in "Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?"]]>~4 months ago announced http://pdf-highlighter.com/

It's a server side solution for highlighting search terms in PDF documents. Can show highlights in a web based PDF viewer (customization of PDF.js) or burn them to PDF. Supports navigation between hits. So far, most customers used it with search solutions based on Solr and dtSearch but it could be easily integrated with any search engine.

Didn't get any comments on HN but it's a profitable project otherwise.

]]>Mon, 04 Jul 2016 18:12:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12032142highlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12032142https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12032142<![CDATA[Show HN: Solution for highlighting search terms in PDF]]>Article URL: http://pdf-highlighter.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11298131

Points: 2

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]]>Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:37:12 +0000http://pdf-highlighter.com/highlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11298131https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11298131