Real annotations
Highlights and notes are PDF annotations: your readers find them in the comments panel of their software, and can reply to them.
How it works
Three steps, nothing more.
Step 01
Drop the PDF you want to annotate.
Step 02
Select a passage to highlight, underline or strike it out, or add a note, an arrow or a shape.
Step 03
Download the annotated PDF.
What sets it apart
Built for the result.
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Text stays text
Annotating does not touch the document: highlighted text stays selectable and searchable, and annotations can be removed one by one.
Accepted formats
Drop them as they are, no conversion needed first.
Privacy
Where your files are processed
With this tool, your file is not transmitted anywhere: not to us, not to any third party. We know neither its name, nor its contents, nor its size.
Nothing is kept, because nothing reaches us.
Frequently asked
What people ask us.
Another question? The contact address is at the bottom of the page.
Yes. Highlights, underlines, strike-outs and notes are saved as standard PDF annotations, read by Acrobat, Preview, Edge, Chrome and other readers.
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