Automating Highlight Extraction from Multiple Documents in DEVONthink Pro

Hello everyone,

I’m looking for a way to automate the extraction of highlights from multiple documents in DEVONthink Pro and consolidate them into a single document. Ideally, the resulting document should include the title of each source document before its respective highlights.

Currently, I’m aware of the “Summarize Highlights” feature, but as far as I know, it only works on one document at a time. Manually summarizing highlights for each document and merging them is quite time-consuming, so I’m wondering if there is a way to automate this process.

Here’s what I would like to achieve:

  1. Iterate through all documents in a selected group.
  2. Extract all highlighted text from each document.
  3. Prepend the document title to its extracted highlights.
  4. Merge all extracted highlights into a single document.

Has anyone implemented something similar using AppleScript, Automator, or any other method? I’d really appreciate any insights, example scripts, or workflows that could help accomplish this efficiently.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Tools > Summarize Annotations supports multiple selected documents.

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Menus > The Tools Menu in the built-in Help and manual

Thank you to both of you! I search for an answer but somehow missed this.:confounded: And how nice that you answer so quickly!:pray::pray::smile:

You’re welcome :slight_smile:

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