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Export Annotations

Extract PDF comments, notes, highlights, and underlines, and structure them into Markdown/JSON notebooks aligned with outline chapters.

Upload PDF with Markups / Annotations
Automatically deserializes PDF markup streams, extracting fluorescent highlights and comment notes into structured summaries.

How to Use

  1. Import annotated PDF

    Upload any PDF essay or book containing your underlines, highlights, or comments.

  2. Configure filters & format

    Select the annotation types you want to extract and choose Markdown or JSON.

  3. Extract notebook

    Click execute to parse the comments stream and assemble your outline summary.

About This Tool

The Smart Annotation Exporter is a powerful workspace that unlocks full value from your PDF annotations.

While conducting literature reviews or reading extensive ebooks, we make heavy use of highlights and sticky notes. This tool deserializes the low-level PDF /Annots dictionary and extracts all highlights, notes, underlines, and hand-drawn ink markers.

It automatically aligns the comments with their respective outline headers, generating a structured Markdown or JSON notebook with page reference anchors. Watch your highlights float beautifully into the frosted-glass notebook panel.

Use Cases

Scientific literature synthesis

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Document collaborative audit

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