Exporting Highlights
Hey everyone,
I wanted a fast, lightweight way to get my typed/OCR text highlights off my reMarkable and straight into my Obsidian vault without having to install heavy third-party parsing packages or node libraries.
Since I couldn't find exactly what I wanted, I decided to build a simple Python script and a Windows batch file to automate it. You just double-click the .bat file and it sweeps your downloads folder, unpacks .rmdoc zip bundles, fixes the weird line breaks, and dumps clean Markdown files right into your Obsidian inbox folder.
I am a total amateur with some basic programming knowledge, and originally built this just to get my highlights, but it's working so well for me that I wanted to share it here in case it helps anyone else with a similar setup.
You can check out the code, read the setup instructions, or download it here on my GitHub repository:
Since I'm still learning, there are probably edge cases or layout bugs, so feel free to leave feedback, open an issue, or contribute if you find it useful!
Edit: This works for the Paper Pro... don't have any other device to test on.