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Extract PDF Annotations

Export all annotation types from a PDF — highlights, underlines, sticky notes, strikethroughs, and drawing annotations — as a structured report showing author, date, page, and comment text.

How to Use Extract PDF Annotations
  1. 1Upload the annotated PDF you want to extract annotations from
  2. 2Click 'Extract Annotations' to scan all pages
  3. 3The tool lists all annotations with type, author, page, and content
  4. 4Filter by annotation type or reviewer if needed
  5. 5Download the structured report as CSV or plain text
Examples
  • Export all reviewer highlights and comments from a marked-up draft before the next revision
  • Save annotations from a reviewed contract PDF as a summary report for the author
  • Extract sticky notes added by multiple reviewers from a shared PDF for consolidation
  • Export highlighted passages from a research PDF to compile a quotes reference file
Frequently Asked Questions

Highlights, underlines, strikethroughs, sticky notes, free-text annotations, drawing annotations (lines, rectangles, circles), and stamps are all extracted.

For each annotation: type, page number, author name (if set), date/time added, the annotated text (for highlights), and the comment/note content.

Yes. Annotations from all reviewers are extracted. The report includes the author name for each annotation so you can filter by reviewer.

Typically CSV or structured text. CSV allows you to open the annotations in a spreadsheet and sort, filter, and analyse them.

Yes. Reviewers can annotate a PDF, and the author can extract all comments into a spreadsheet to address them systematically.

Yes. All extraction runs in your browser. Your PDF is never uploaded to any server.

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