PDFAnnotations
Extract PDF annotations, highlights & comments locally in your browser.
Category
Productivity
Pricing Model
Freemium
What is PDFAnnotations?
PDFAnnotations is a privacy-first PDF annotation toolset for extracting, cleaning, converting, and reviewing PDF highlights, comments, and annotations. Export to Markdown, CSV, TXT and more; Pro adds advanced Workspace workflows. Files are processed locally in your browser and are not uploaded for parsing or export.
Pros
- Local browser processing; files are not uploaded for parsing or export.
- Supports highlights, comments, sticky notes, underlines, wavy lines, and strikeouts.
- Exports to Markdown, CSV, TXT, Notion, Obsidian, and other supported formats where applicable.
- Workspace filters, search, grouping, sorting, and batch workflows on Pro.
Cons
- Pro is needed for advanced Workspace features, higher daily limits, and advanced export formats.
- Traditional binary FDF is not supported; XFDF and XML FDF are supported.
Key Features
- Extract PDF highlights, comments, sticky notes, underlines, wavy lines, and strikeouts.
- Export annotations to Markdown, CSV, TXT, Notion, Obsidian, and more where supported.
- Remove supported PDF annotations, highlights, comments, stamps, drawings, and text annotations.
- Convert XFDF and XML FDF annotation data locally in the browser.
- Process files locally in your browser; files are not uploaded for parsing or export.
Who is this for?
Researchers
students
lawyers
writers
reviewers
and knowledge workers