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kalos:
hello!

I want to research (gather information) on 20 subjects/questions. That means that for each subject/question, I will copy text from various sources, extract pdf pages, crop parts of pdf pages, copy images, tables, etc from the web, MS Office documents, etc, and put all of them together, so I will process them later, to produce a report/response to the subject/question.

Is there a software that can help me manage the research of those 20 subjects?

Maybe MS Word can do this, but:
- I want to easily go through the info I gathered for each subject, and not do endless scrolling (unless MS Word can create an outline or something, so when I click on a specific subject, to display the gathered material on that subject)
- I want to easily add material of various formats, pdf, images, tables, text, without any problem (eg without pdf text's format to break, etc)

any suggestion?

thanks!

c.gingerich:
I use a very great app called WebResearch Pro 3. I think that it would work for what you are asking. http://www.macropool.com/en/products/webresearch/index.html

tomos:
@c.gingerich, WebResearch Pro looks very nice - can it save PDFs (or other filetypes) as well?


I will ... extract pdf pages ...
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- I want to easily add material of various formats, pdf, images, tables, text, without any problem (eg without pdf text's format to break, etc)-kalos (April 29, 2012, 08:54 AM)
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you will probably have trouble with the PDFs (as usual ;)) - some PIMs will save a PDF within the file, or link to the file, but I've never heard of an app like this that will extract pages from a PDF. Copying text from a PDF is usually a disaster from the format point of view AFAIK.
But maybe someone will know of something out there that can help...

kalos:
mmm

it seems interesting, but the first obstacle I encountered, is that I cannot import the subjects easily, I have to do it one by one (20++)

:/

c.gingerich:
Ah.. I see. I use it on the fly as I find things and such. I use Yahoo messenger and I can drag and drop  text from that.

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