Obsidian plugins with #pdf#

The Obsidian Enhancing Export plugin leverages Pandoc to provide seamless export capabilities for your Obsidian notes. It supports multiple formats, including Markdown, HTML, DOCX, and LaTeX, while ensuring media resources are bundled where applicable. Users can customize export commands with dynamic variables, adapting outputs to specific needs. The plugin is particularly useful for academic and professional writing, enabling precise control over file paths, naming conventions, and formatting. Integration with YAML metadata enhances flexibility. With intuitive export settings and compatibility across platforms, it simplifies document conversion while maintaining the integrity of your notes and their embedded content.

The Markmind plugin is an advanced tool for creating mind maps, outlines, and PDF annotations within Obsidian. It offers two modes: 'Basic' for simple mind maps and outlines, and 'Rich' for enhanced features such as summaries, boundaries, and linked nodes. Users can embed mind maps within markdown files, convert outlines to tables, and export their maps as images or PDFs. The plugin also provides extensive PDF annotation capabilities, allowing users to highlight text, add comments, and link annotations to mind map nodes.

The Text Extractor plugin allows you to extract text from images and PDFs within Obsidian, providing a unified way to access this functionality. With support for various file types, including image formats like PNG and JPEG, as well as PDFs and Office documents, this plugin is perfect for those who want to quickly extract information from visual content. The extracted text can be cached for later use, making it easy to access the same information across your devices. While some limitations exist, such as issues with PDF extraction and lack of support on mobile, the Text Extractor plugin remains a valuable tool for anyone looking to streamline their Obsidian experience.

The Extract PDF Annotations plugin allows users to efficiently extract and organize annotations such as highlights, notes, and comments from PDF files, both within and outside their Obsidian vault. It categorizes annotations by topics derived from the first line of comments, making it easier to group related notes across multiple documents. The plugin supports batch extraction from entire directories or targeted extraction from individual files. Users can customize the output with templates, choosing annotation types and sorting preferences.

The Marker PDF to MD plugin allows users to seamlessly convert PDFs into rich Markdown files within their Obsidian vault. Utilizing advanced AI from the Marker project, it supports features like OCR for scanned documents, formula detection, table extraction, and image handling. Users can choose between full or selective content extraction, ensuring flexibility for diverse use cases. The plugin works with a hosted API service or a self-hosted setup, catering to different user preferences. Additional options include automatic folder organization, metadata inclusion, and customizable settings for content extraction, making it a powerful tool for managing PDF resources in Obsidian.

The Annotator plugin allows users to open and annotate PDF and EPUB files within Obsidian. It enables storing annotations locally in markdown files, maintaining a structured workflow without relying on external services. Users can highlight text, add comments, and link annotations directly to their notes for better organization. The plugin supports dark mode, provides an option to toggle between annotation and markdown modes, and integrates with the Dataview plugin for enhanced querying capabilities. Annotations are easily accessible via Obsidian links, ensuring smooth navigation between notes and files.

The PDF 2 Images Plugin offers a seamless way to convert PDF documents into images and insert them directly into your Obsidian notes. This is especially useful for capturing lecture slides or any visual content, preserving the original layout and design of the pages. Users can adjust the image quality, from smaller file sizes to higher resolutions, depending on their needs. The plugin provides two image insertion methods-procedural or batch-allowing for flexibility in how images are added to notes. Additionally, you can toggle the inclusion of headers for each image, and even customize the size and sensitivity of the header extraction. For better organization, there's an option to insert a line between images, ensuring your notes are clean and well-structured. This plugin is an excellent tool for anyone looking to integrate PDFs with visual content into their Obsidian workflow.

The PDF++ plugin turns links to PDF text selections into visible highlights inside the built in PDF viewer, so notes and source passages stay connected through plain markdown links. It can also add highlights and links directly into PDF files, manage page composition, edit outlines and labels, improve handling of internal PDF links and add faster copying tools through palettes, hotkeys, custom menus and template based link formats. The plugin extends backlinks with page filtering and hover sync, keeps PDF tabs and embeds more controllable and adds options for external app sync.

The PDF Folder to Markdowns plugin streamlines the process of converting entire folders of PDF documents into Markdown files within Obsidian. Each generated note includes an embedded view of its corresponding PDF, making it easy to reference and organize external reading materials or annotated files. The plugin is especially helpful for users migrating content from e-readers or note-taking apps that store information as PDFs. With the option to automatically rename the original folder after conversion, users can maintain a clean and consistent folder structure.

The PDF Break Page plugin enhances the PDF exporting process in Obsidian by allowing users to insert page breaks at specific points in their Markdown files. With customizable hotkeys and commands like `/break`, users can easily define where pages should split, ensuring better formatting and organization of exported PDFs.

The SwiftLaTeX Render plugin provides seamless rendering of LaTeX code blocks within Obsidian, enabling users to generate PDF or SVG outputs directly from their notes. By supporting the `latex` and `latexsvg` code block types, it allows easy creation of complex mathematical documents and diagrams. Users can customize their experience with options such as adjusting the player mode, visibility of progress bars, and timestamp formatting. The plugin uses the SwiftLaTeX wasm compiler and offers caching for generated files and packages, improving performance. While it does not yet support mobile devices, it enhances the Obsidian experience for those working with LaTeX content, especially in academic and technical note-taking.

The Slide Note plugin is designed to enhance note-taking during classes by seamlessly integrating slide PDFs with annotations and notes within Obsidian. It allows users to link plaintext notes to specific slides, render slides alongside graphical annotations, and configure per-file settings for tailored usability. Users can add advanced annotations such as paths, lines, and text using a built-in drawboard. The plugin supports detailed configurations like scaling, resolution (DPI), page rotation, and partial rendering of slide pages. Additionally, it includes compatibility with the better-pdf plugin syntax, enabling smoother transitions for existing users.

The LLM Summary plugin is designed to simplify note-taking and concept defining for users of Obsidian. With this plugin, you can automatically generate summaries of PDF files using OpenAI's GPT models, saving you time and effort. You can also define new concepts from selected text with just a few clicks, creating new notes in your vault. The plugin is particularly well-suited for academic paper readings, as it can help you quickly summarize key points and identify important concepts.

The downloadPDF Plugin is a simple but useful tool for Obsidian users who want to download and save all PDF files linked within their vault. By using the command palette, you can quickly download every PDF linked across your documents, saving them to the parent directory of each related file. This plugin makes managing external PDFs more convenient by organizing and storing them locally, so you can access your files without needing to manually track or open links. Whether you're organizing research or simply prefer to have everything stored locally, this plugin streamlines the process.

The Convert to Markdown plugin converts a wide range of files in your vault into Markdown notes while preserving the source material's structure, tables, images and ordering. It handles PDFs, Office and OpenDocument files, ebooks, saved web pages, email, notebooks, subtitle tracks, spreadsheets and common image formats. Conversion stays local and deterministic, with no cloud service or API key involved. For scanned PDFs and image files it uses local OCR, reports confidence and notes which pages needed recognition. The plugin also resolves multi column PDFs, rebuilds paragraphs, extracts images beside the note and records skipped items instead of hiding them. Notes are written next to the original file and existing notes are left untouched.

The PDF Paste plugin improves the process of copying text from PDFs by automatically cleaning up formatting issues such as unwanted newlines, broken line breaks, and hyphenation. It ensures that pasted text integrates smoothly into notes without requiring manual corrections. The plugin provides a quick-access command and allows users to set a custom hotkey for efficient pasting.

The PDF++ Exporter plugin takes annotations and notes linked from Markdown back into a PDF as standard highlights, rectangles and popup comments, so the file can be shared outside the vault without losing context. It works with text selections and area captures, pulls comments from callouts, paragraphs or list items and lets you control colour filters, opacity, link replacement text and sticky note output for viewer compatibility. The plugin is built for people who review papers, contracts or other documents in notes first and need a final annotated PDF later. It also handles dummy PDFs that point to remote files, using cached or fetched copies when needed, which keeps the export flow usable even when the source is not a local PDF.

The Better PDF plugin allows you to seamlessly integrate PDF files into your Obsidian notes. With this plugin, you can insert a single page or a range of pages from a PDF file directly into your note. You can also scale the size of the PDF pages to fit your note layout and rotate them as needed. Additionally, you can hyperlink to PDF files and even cut out specific parts of the PDF. The plugin provides a flexible syntax for inserting PDF content, making it easy to customize your notes with PDFs.

The Pandoc plugin for Obsidian is a powerful tool that allows you to export your notes in various formats, including Word Documents, PDFs, ePub books, HTML websites, PowerPoints, and LaTeX. With Pandoc's versatility, you can write presentations, draft books, create web pages, and even submit assignments all within the comfort of Obsidian's interface. The plugin's command palette makes it easy to access a wide range of export options, giving you greater flexibility in how you share your work with others.

The BibDesk Integration plugin connects Obsidian with the macOS BibDesk application, allowing users to manage and open PDFs linked to BibTeX entries. It works with external BibTeX files and uses BibDesk's macOS bookmark system, ensuring seamless file access even if files are moved or renamed. The plugin features an optimized BibTeX parser designed for speed and efficiency, processing data on a separate thread to minimize performance impact. It integrates with the PDF++ plugin, enabling users to open PDFs stored outside their vault. The plugin also provides a fuzzy search modal for selecting papers and supports large external libraries without requiring them to be stored in the Obsidian vault.

The Awesome Reader plugin transforms Obsidian into an efficient e-book reader by supporting formats like EPUB and PDF. It remembers your reading progress and syncs it across all devices, ensuring seamless reading continuity. The plugin allows users to create well-organized book notes directly from a table of contents, helping with detailed and structured note-taking. Designed to integrate seamlessly with Obsidian's workflow, it makes managing and annotating e-books more streamlined and efficient.

The Paperless plugin integrates Obsidian with a self-hosted Paperless-ngx instance, allowing users to seamlessly view and insert PDFs into their notes. It provides an overview of all available documents and enables one-click import, embedding external PDFs directly into the vault. This eliminates concerns about local storage while maintaining easy access to important files.

The PDF Highlights plugin is a game-changer for Obsidian users who often work with PDFs and want to extract highlighted and underlined text into a markdown file within their vault. This plugin allows you to effortlessly extract these highlights, giving you a clean and organized way to review and reference important information from your PDFs. With customizable settings, you can choose what details are included in the extracted text, such as page numbers or highlight colors. The plugin also provides a simple and intuitive interface for users to navigate, making it easy to get started right away.

The Handwriting OCR plugin converts handwritten or printed content from images and PDFs into editable text using HandwritingOCR's AI-powered recognition service. It supports a wide range of image formats, multi-page PDFs, and files up to 20MB, making it suitable for digitising notes, archival documents, or scanned material. Extracted text can be copied to the clipboard, appended to an existing note, or saved as a new note, with options accessible via the command palette or right-click menus in both the editor and file explorer. The plugin requires an API key from HandwritingOCR, validates it within the settings, and displays your remaining credits.

The HandLayers plugin adds editable handwriting and drawing layers to Markdown and PDF files without changing source content. Apple Pencil or mouse input creates ink while touch remains available for page navigation. Its tools cover pens, highlighters, text, shapes, lasso selection and temporary whiteboards, with controls for moving, resizing, rotating, recolouring and arranging annotations. Layers can be named, reordered, hidden and given individual opacity, and their JSON data stays inside the local vault. PDF workflows support visible annotation merging and ZIP exports containing source files, saved layer SVGs, JSON and a manifest. It also provides non destructive image processing for PDF regions and Markdown images, including colour selection, cleanup, cropping, rotation and perspective correction.

The Third Mind Reader plugin adds an EPUB and PDF reader that opens books as tabs and writes every highlight into a companion Markdown note in your vault. It keeps reading, annotation and note linking in one flow with chapter navigation, in book search, progress tracking, bookmarks and per book position memory. Selected text opens the Gloss toolbar, which can save plain highlights or, when you configure a provider, run Explain, Examine and chat style AI actions beside the passage. Companion notes store quotes, notes and full AI exchanges as normal vault files with links back to the source. PDFs use the same toolbar through the built in viewer, while deferred AI lets mobile reading hand off local inference to desktop.

The Qiaomu Reader plugin turns long form reading into a single workflow with an in app library, in place highlights, linked annotations and one Markdown reading note per book. It supports EPUB, PDF, FB2, MOBI, AZW3 and CBZ, keeps PDF pages in their original layout and stores reading position, named bookmarks and search return points. Selected text can be copied, commented on or sent to an optional side by side AI panel that keeps source context with each question and can save full replies back into notes. The plugin includes six bundled public domain books for first use, offers themes, font controls and single or double page layouts and works offline for reading, highlights, notes and progress, while scan only PDFs do not provide text search or text based AI questions.

The PDF to Markdown Native plugin converts text based PDFs in the vault into plain Markdown using Obsidian's PDF engine and Vault APIs, with no external service or network access. It extracts text, detects simple tables and can save tables as editable Markdown, compact SVG or both. Embedded images can be extracted, resized and compressed as WebP, JPEG or PNG, while scanned or image only pages are preserved as compressed page images. A preview covers the PDF, rendered Markdown, source Markdown and output files before saving. Source PDFs can remain in place, move to Obsidian Trash or move to another vault folder, with resolving links updated while aliases stay intact. It does not use OCR or guarantee perfect recovery for complex layouts and never reads or writes outside the vault.

The Book Reader plugin opens EPUB, FB2 and PDF books inside the vault and keeps reading progress, highlights, comments and note exports tied to those files. It supports paged or scrolling reading, one or two columns, adjustable font settings, line spacing, alignment, line width, full text search and a table of contents built from bookmarks, headings or a printed contents page. Highlights come in four colours, can carry comments, and can be turned into notes individually or exported for a whole book with chapter grouping and page numbers. The library view shows covers, progress and categories, while progress files sync through the vault. Optional translation and AI passage breakdown stay off until configured, with local Ollama or LM Studio support.