web document highlight and annotate.

spm_uk · 8 Sep 2011 at 19:30

Just looking for for some advise. This is the flow im looking for.

Upload doc/pdf --> view document in web page --> have the ability to highlight and annotate the document without editing origional --> save and view later.

Im thinking mayb some sort of web viewer then saving highlight and annotation in an xml file?

Any ideas?

Cheers

spm_uk · 9 Sep 2011 at 17:49

No one got any ideas at all on this one? Im guessing it will have to be some sort of Javascript editor, there are a few open source out there. Im just not 100% on how to do the whole saving highlighting and annotation side.

Cheers

spm_uk · 9 Sep 2011 at 20:52

thanks for the reply, I shall have a crack at it this weekend and let you know what I come up with

spm_uk · 11 Sep 2011 at 13:05

Just a quick update to my weekend project! I know it is ugly but im looking at features at the moment not looks

Here is what the prototype is currently looking like;

I do not have any php/mysql hosting at the moment so im running it off my local machine.

It is pretty limited at the moment but has the basics:

* Highlight text in four different colours (this will change, with each document group having a schema)
* Saving/Loading to a MySQL database
* Ajax and Jquery so no page shifting

This is a very basic project at the moment but its the first time I have attempted jquery/ajax etc and I have 100's of features still to add for where I want it to be!

spm_uk · 13 Sep 2011 at 21:01

Hey all bit of an update for anyone interested! worked on the looks a bit as it was hurting my eyes!

Looking at adding user profiles for logins etc, so there will be uploading and saving for each user. Then im doign to work on document group tagging schema which might take a while as I still havnt worked out how im going to save etc.

I will upload when I think I have something of value

at the moment im happy plodding along adding a feature now and then as a hobby.

Heres an update on looks;

p.s. the Document viewer is now a new jquery modal that pops up allowing you to select, upload, etc. Im still working on the CSS for it so shall show that later.

Cheers

spm_uk · 13 Sep 2011 at 22:03

lol it will be open source, the footer just looked a little bare without anything in it!.