PdfJs Annotator

PdfJs-Annotator is a proof of concept project that integrates AnnotatorJs (http://annotatorjs.org/) with the PdfJs (https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/) library. It uses a simple Spring Boot application and a MySql database containing one table in the backend to persist annotations. MIT License applies (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).

Note that this repository is not maintained anymore, as it was just a proof of concept. Reported issues will not be resolved.

Used libaries and frameworks, licenses

• PdfJS (Apache License 2.0, http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• Annotator v1.2.10 (Dual licensed under the MIT and GPLv3 licenses, https://github.com/okfn/annotator/)
• jQuery v2.1.4 (MIT License, https://tldrlegal.com/license/mit-license)
• Spring Boot 1.2.3 (Apache License 2.0, https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/blob/master/LICENSE.txt)

Thanks to the authors and contributors of those libraries and frameworks.

Project Setup

Clone the project

git clone git@bitbucket.org:mathiasconradt/pdfjs-annotator.git

Create database pdfjs_annotator

Create a MySql database named pdfjs_annotator:

CREATE DATABASE pdfjs_annotator CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin;

Create database schema

Create the database schema in the just created pdfjs_annotator database:

SET NAMES utf8; SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0; DROP TABLE IF EXISTS 'annotation'; CREATE TABLE 'annotation' ( 'id' varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL, 'annotator_schema_version' varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL, 'consumer' varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL, 'created' datetime DEFAULT NULL, 'quote' longtext COLLATE utf8_bin, 'end' varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL, 'end_offset' int(11) DEFAULT NULL, 'start' varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL, 'start_offset' int(11) DEFAULT NULL, 'tags' tinyblob, 'text' longtext COLLATE utf8_bin, 'updated' datetime DEFAULT NULL, 'uri' varchar(2000) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL, 'user' varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin DEFAULT NULL, PRIMARY KEY ('id') ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin; SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;

Adjust database connection (optional)

Database connection properties for the project are defined in /src/main/resources/application.properties.

It assumes username root and password root. Adjust it to your own local MySql server.

Starting the project

Make sure you have Gradle installed. If not, download it from here http://gradle.org, then add the gradle/bin folder to your environment PATH.

You can start the project with: gradle run

The embedded Tomcat starts up (make sure port 8080 isn't in use by anything else). You can then open a web browser and point it to: http://localhost:8080/web/viewer

You should then see a default dummy pdf and you should be able to annotate it by marking a word or sentence with the mouse.

Loading a different pdf

You can load any other pdf by specifying a url parameter file, which would then take the pdf by that name from the folder /src/main/resources/static/web.

Example: http://localhost:8080/web/viewer?file=example.pdf

Questions

For any questions, you can contact me.

E-Mail: mathias.conradt@gmail.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mathiasconradt

Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/241475/mathias-conradt