Bug 199401 - Library management for PDF (and other) files
Summary: Library management for PDF (and other) files
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2009-07-08 11:58 UTC by Navneet Sankara
Modified: 2009-07-08 12:13 UTC (History)
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Description Navneet Sankara 2009-07-08 11:58:59 UTC
Version:           Okular 0.8.2 (using KDE 4.2.90)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Would it be possible to have library management of files on the personal computer from within Okular? I am a budding researcher and I find Zotero ( http://www.zotero.org/ ) very useful to manage all the papers that I have on my HD. It would be useful to have this functionality from within Okular (much the same as Amarok manages my music, for example). I think some of this is present in a proprietary software for Mac users called Papers.

In combination with the annotation tool, this would greatly improve usability for researchers (and for other users as well?). The ability to search and access files using keywords, author names, title, abstract etc would be very helpful. Keeping sub-collections of files (for, say, all references for a particular project) would also be useful.

Additionally, it would be nice to have a way to parse citations and download the papers automatically, if possible. Yet another useful feature would be a snapshot (or a quick preview) for links within files. For example, when you point to a reference to an equation number, a figure number, a citation etc, it would be nice to have a preview of the corresponding item. This would need a lot of indexing and OCR, I would imagine and is probably a bit too far fetched. But I'm just making wishlist! ;)
Comment 1 Pino Toscano 2009-07-08 12:13:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Would it be possible to have library management of files on the personal
> computer from within Okular?

We decided to have Okular has a viewer only, not to bloat it in a fashion like amarok/juk/digikam.
That said, Okular provides a KDE KPart component, so an external application can embed it without problems.