Highlights Alternatives

Highlights is described as 'PDF reader for note takers. Highlights lets you highlight text and select images in the PDF, but take notes in a regular text-editor. No more typing notes and comments into tiny text boxes' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are four alternatives to Highlights for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, iPhone, iPad, Zotero and Mac apps. The best Highlights alternative is MarginNote, which is free. Other great apps like Highlights are ZotFile, PdfHighlights and Sumnotes.

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    ZotFile

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    Zotfile is a Zotero plugin to manage your attachments: automatically rename, move, and attach PDFs (or other files) to Zotero items, sync PDFs from your Zotero library to your (mobile) PDF reader (e.g. an iPad, Android tablet, etc.) and extract annotations from PDF files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Zotero
     
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    PdfHighlights

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    PdfHighlights easily extracts and exports all your highlights and annotations from all your PDF files into a single, clean report.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Sumnotes

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    Sumnotes extracts information from PDF files to let you focus on what matters.

    Features

    Extract highlights and images

    Save yourself a headache of searching for a tool to extract annotations and images from your PDF materials. Sumnotes is the only simple, yet robust solution to.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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