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So I just started playing around with my reMarkable, and I'm loving a lot of the features. But I was disappointed to discover that it seems to lack full PDF support. Rather, it appears to treat PDFs only visually, without any way of interacting with OCRed text.
I was crossing my fingers that it would offer in-document search functionality. This official demonstration video (at 0:43) seems to imply that it does - but when I open PDFs on mine, the interface doesn't look like it does there: the X to close the document is in the upper right corner where the Search button would be.
Likewise, there doesn't seem to be any option for text-based highlighting - where I'd be able to select and highlight a block of text in the same way I could with a PDF on my desktop. Instead, I seem to be limited to a graphic highlighting tool (essentially just drawing on top of the document). Again, Remarkable's own support page seems to show text-based highlighting (perfect rectangles instead of hand-drawn squiggles), but I can't find any way of doing that on my own device.
Furthermore, if I mark up my document using the graphic highlighting tool, and I then want to export that document back to my desktop, it actually strips out the OCR that was originally in the document.
I thought the first two features might be limited to e-books, so I tried opening an epub file - even then, the in-document search and text-based highlighting features that are shown in Remarkable's own demonstration and support materials aren't available.
Is this just false advertising, or am I missing something??
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