Export Highlights as Text
Pull every Highlight annotation out of a PDF and write them as a plain-text list — page, location, author, and any attached comment.
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How does the Export Highlights as Text work?
Extract every Highlight annotation from a PDF and write a plain-text summary, one line per highlight, grouped by page. Each line shows the author plus any comment attached to the highlight (Adobe Reader and Preview let users add a popup comment to a highlight; this exposes it). Useful for review summaries, study notes from highlighted PDFs, or extracting "key passages" from a marked-up document. Limitation: this v1 does not extract the underlying text the highlight covers — only the rect coords and any author-added comment. Underlying-text extraction requires text-position introspection and is on the roadmap.
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Drag, drop, click. Most files process in seconds, not minutes. No watermarks added to your output, no per-day limits, and the tool always shows the result before asking you to download.
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