61I want the app to find charts in my PDF
PDF Tools: chart detection, and glossary terms highlighted on the page - beta
- PDF Tools is a beta and off by default: Settings → Appearance → Beta Features → PDF Tools. It holds two switches - PDF Chart Detector and PDF Glossary Overlay.
- Chart detection also needs premium: the Charts button is only built in Smart Tracking and Full Knitting.
- A pattern PDF open in the reader. Nothing is sent anywhere - the page is read on your own device.
With the beta on and a premium plan, the toolbar gains Charts. Open it on a page that has a chart and it looks for chart and table regions, then reports how many rows it found and how confident it is.
A sensitivity slider decides how hard it looks. Lower catches fewer things that are not charts; higher catches smaller or fainter ones. Adjust it and scan again - it is quick, and the right setting depends on how the designer drew the chart.
A detected chart is drawn as an overlay on the PDF page. Link it to a counter and the row you are on is highlighted where it actually is - on the chart, not in a separate panel. Tap that highlighted row to advance the counter, and the rows behind you shade in as the count moves.
The second switch, PDF Glossary Overlay, marks glossary terms on the page itself. In the reader, Show terms turns the highlighting on and Hide terms takes it away again - so you can read the pattern plainly, then light up the abbreviations when a row stops making sense.
Available on iPhone, iPad, Android, and web at app.stash2go.com