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Extract PDF Comments

Extract all reviewer comments and notes from a PDF as a structured report, showing the author, date, page, and comment text for each note. Useful for document review workflows.

How to Use Extract PDF Comments
  1. 1Upload the reviewed PDF containing comments and sticky notes
  2. 2Click 'Extract Comments' to scan all pages for reviewer notes
  3. 3The tool lists all comments with author, date, page, and text
  4. 4Sort or filter by reviewer or page as needed
  5. 5Download the structured report as CSV or plain text
Examples
  • Export all reviewer comments from a manuscript review PDF into a feedback document
  • Extract annotator notes from a legal document review PDF for the drafting team
  • Pull comments from a marked-up technical specification PDF to create an action list
  • Export all comments from a collaborative PDF review into a shared task tracker
Frequently Asked Questions

Sticky notes (pop-up comments), free-text annotations, notes attached to highlights or underlines, and comments associated with markup annotations.

Author name, date and time the comment was added, the page it appears on, the comment text, and the type of annotation the comment is attached to.

Comments are a subset of annotations — specifically the text notes. Annotation extraction captures all annotation types (highlights, shapes, etc.) while comment extraction focuses on the text content of notes.

The export is structured so you can open it in a spreadsheet and sort by any column — author, date, page number, or annotation type.

Yes. For multi-reviewer documents, exporting comments gives you a complete audit trail of who said what and on which page, which is easier to track in a spreadsheet than in the PDF viewer.

Yes. All extraction runs in your browser. Your PDF and comments are never uploaded to any server.

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