The institution where I’m studying in provides students with slides that contain learning material. I often read the slides on my Android device. These slides have many graphics which I use in my Image Occlusion cards.
This is my workflow for creating Image Occlusion cards from those slides:
- I open the PDF viewer installed on my Android device
- While reading the slides, I notice there’s some important information that I should remember, so I take an screenshot
- I open the gallery installed on my Android device
- I crop the screenshot so that the image only contains the content of that particular slide. In other words, I crop the Android status bar which is at the top, the Android navigation bar which is at the bottom.
- Press the “Share” button which the gallery app shows when viewing an image and select “AnkiMobile” > “Image Occlusion”
It would be great if some PDF viewer in Android allowed the user to share the current page as an screenshot with another application. Thus, I wouldn’t need to do the manual work of cropping the Android status bar and navigation bar. Some days, I have had to manually crop more than 20 screenshots of slides. I felt that I could make better use of my time and let the computer do that repetitive task.
I wonder if there are some free and open-source PDF viewer in Android that allowed the user to share the current page as an image. If anyone is aware of such application, please let me know.
I mainly use Librera Reader to read PDF files on my Android device, but it doesn’t have this feature, so I have opened a feature request in the repository of Librera Reader: https://github.com/foobnix/LibreraReader/issues/1390