Improved search and deep linking
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- HTML
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Description
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One of the user interviews was disappointed that the search couldn’t link to individual pages, and this feels a fixable issue with a little R&D time. Similarly there are some existing tools for table of contents extraction that paired with deep linking would make PDFs much more useful without needing to fully understand the content. Structured understanding of tables of contents could improve search, and provide a light form of structured content for comparing documents.
Chrome supports both linking to a specific page of a PDF url, and also linking to specific text fragments on an html page. Could use this to validate if it's useful.
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Research direction
Start by validating Chrome's support for links to specific PDF pages and HTML text fragments, then review the linked pdf.tocgen tool for table-of-contents extraction. Done would require a concrete scope and implementation plan for page-level search links, TOC structure, and document comparison.
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Assessment
- Domain
- search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100