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Annotate, Markup, and Highlight PDF As You Please

Annotate PDFs by highlighting and adding text, sticky notes,
corrections, shapes, signatures, stamps and drawings.

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Easily annotate PDF anytime with powerful
PDF annotation and markup tools.

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Education

Due to the pandemic, there are lots of online classes. I want to go paper less so I just use highlighter, underlining, editing features in PDFelements. It really helps with my learning.

-- Paul, Student

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pdf annotator for it

IT Service

I read and comment on (annotate) documents frequently. The workflow in PDFelement for this is quite efficient.

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pdf annotator for healthcare

Healthcare

In my work, I use program to assist my paperless office goals. It means I can send anything to print and I have a pdf record, small file to save, email, store. I am able to make notes on the Pdf as a memory aid for future audits etc.

-- Shanna, Insurance Staff

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FAQs about PDF highlighter app.

How do you annotate a PDF?
There are multiple ways to annotate and add markups to PDFs. First, you can annotate PDF will sticky text notes, pencil drawings, text callout, and highlight texts. In addition, you can underline texts, add strikethroughs, and highlight vital areas on Windows. And without forgetting the dynamic shapes, stamps, and lines.

Adobe Acrobat is one of the most widely-used PDF tools. But the $14.99 billed monthly can price some users out of contention. Therefore, use PDFelement to add high-quality annotations to your PDF file. You can add dynamic shapes, lines, and pencil drawings. Also, this software lets you add notes, attachments, feedback, e-sign, highlight texts, and more. It’s the perfect alternative to Adobe Acrobat.

If you know how to add comments in Google Docs and MS Word, then you already have an idea of PDF annotation. In a nutshell, PDF annotation is the practice of adding graphics, texts, and objects to your portable document file. For example, you use the Text Highlight features to highlight a particular sentence. You can also do this using shapes, lines, and text colors.

Google Drive is a free cloud service that allows you to annotate and edit PDFs on Chrome or any other desktop browser. To annotate a PDF on Google Drive, simply upload the file and then open it using Google Docs. Then, insert images, drawings, footnotes, comments, texts, and more. Remember, Google Docs supports PDF exports.

Wondershare PDFelement is the perfect free software to annotate PDFs without paying a dime. You can annotate PDFs with texts, lines, shapes, drawings, arrows, and more. Note, however, that you may need to purchase the affordable $79.99/year plan to unlock more features and remove watermarks.
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