What is it?

minnow is like flickr for PDFs. Upload PDF files, and it converts them to a series of images (one for each page) and allows you to leave comments and annotations on each page. So, minnow is a way to discuss PDF documents online in a community environment. You can use minnow to blog a PDF and discuss it, or use minnow by itself as a threaded forum PDF discussion engine. With minnow, the "topic" is a PDF rather than some text that you enter. minnow users can read the PDF and leave comments or annotations which will be viewable by all as soon as they are written. Any type of document that you can get into PDF format can be uploaded to minnow. Developed by the Mathematical Biology group at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, WA with support by NOAA/NMFS.

Features

• Simple Uploading of PDF documents
• User annotations allow registered users to select an area of the uploaded document and enter a note about it
• User comments allow registered users to make general comments about a document or certain page
• Threaded comment system
• Access control to restrict which users can access certain documents
• RSS feeds for comments and annotations on each uploaded document

Demo Site

You can view a Minnow demo site here.