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Better PDF for Obsidian

Insert, scale, rotate, and extract pages from PDFs directly into your Obsidian notes.

Chinese summary

在Obsidian笔记中直接插入、缩放、旋转和提取PDF页面。

Key Use Cases

  • Inserting specific PDF figures or tables into notes
  • Rotating scanned or misoriented PDF pages
  • Extracting and embedding selected PDF pages as note content
  • Scaling oversized PDFs to fit note layout

Pros

  • Native Obsidian integration without leaving the app
  • Simple one-click operations for PDF manipulation
  • Lightweight and responsive

Limitations

  • Limited to basic page-level actions (no text extraction or annotation)
  • No built-in PDF viewer annotation tools
  • May not support all PDF encodings or complex layouts

Tags

pdfembedrotatescaleextractnote-taking

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