Best PDF Annotators - Page 2

Compare the Top PDF Annotators as of July 2025 - Page 2

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    AmindPDF

    AmindPDF

    AmindPDF

    AmindPDF's user interface is very user-friendly and makes the operation of PDF easy. It can recognize PDF text as paragraphs or whole blocks of text, allowing users to edit text directly and smoothly, like in MS Word. for PDF protection, it allows adding passwords, setting document permissions, placing signatures, adding watermarks to PDF It also supports batch operations to process files, such as merge/split tool, compression tool, creation tool, Bates numbering tool, and conversion tool, so users can process multiple PDF files at once. AmindPDF is available for a number of platforms: Windows, iOS, and Android. Users are able to use the same PDF tool on a computer or mobile phone. So AmindPDF let you process or edit PDFs anytime, anywhere.
    Starting Price: $9.90
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    Conholdate.Total For .NET
    Conholdate.Total for .NET is the complete package of all .NET APIs as offered by Aspose and GroupDocs. It empowers the developers to perform a wide range of document processing tasks from within their own .NET based applications. This .NET package is an all-in-one solution for all types of document managements systems because it offers the ability to create, edit, print, view, annotate, compare, sign, automate, search and convert between a wide range of popular document formats. Process a Multitude of File Formats - Conholdate.Total for .NET empowers you to build an incredibly versatile file processing system capable of handling many popular file formats. You can easily open, create, modify and convert file formats. Conholdate.Total for .NET currently supports following file types: Microsoft Word documents Microsoft Excel spreadsheets Microsoft PowerPoint presentations Adobe PDF documents Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Project files and more than 100 other file formats
    Starting Price: $4,999
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    PDF Annotator

    PDF Annotator

    GRAHL software design

    Add notes & annotations to any PDF document - comments, corrections, signatures, highlighting, even photos, designs and drawings. Comments, corrections, signatures, highlighting, even photos and drawings. Share them with coworkers, email them to clients, partners or back to authors. Remove or hide all markup with a single click. Combine documents, copy, re-order or remove pages. Deliver outstanding interactive presentations in meetings or lectures with PDF Annotator as your "digital whiteboard". Make a short comment on a long document. Fill in or sign a form or agreement, and return it by email. Proofread, review and correct a document right on your screen. Make notes and drawings right on the pages. Grade student papers right on your PC, laptop or Tablet PC.
    Starting Price: $69.95
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    LiquidText

    LiquidText

    LiquidText

    Review documents faster. Find facts effortlessly. See the connections others miss. Go past the limits of paper with LiquidText. Note-taking and document analysis tools have changed little from the margin notes, highlighting, and sticky notes we have used forever. Most apps today try to duplicate paper, but, in spite of this, over 80% of knowledge workers still prefer paper at work and school. LiquidText moves beyond paper. It captures your reading, notes, highlights, annotations and observations just like paper; but goes further to reveal their connections, to source materials and each other in a way that documents and maps your project in a clear and shareable form. We connect related notes into ideas, and we connect your ideas into reports. Every note, idea and observation can be connected to others, and a single tap can show those relationships and original context.
    Starting Price: $7.99 per month
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    JPedal

    JPedal

    IDR Solutions

    JPedal is a versatile Java PDF Library for displaying, converting, printing, and parsing PDFs in Java applications. With over 20 years of development, it supports a wide range of PDF files. Key features include: -PDF to Image Conversion: Converts PDFs to images in various formats. -Java Swing PDF Viewer: Offers multi-page display, search, printing, and annotation editing. -Text and Image Extraction: High-quality extraction of text and images from PDFs. -PDF Search: Supports searching with wildcards and regular expressions. -Form & Annotation Handling: Supports XFA and AcroForms, enabling form data access and annotation editing. -Document Manipulation: Allows deleting, merging, splitting, and optimizing PDFs. -Security & Performance: Runs locally without third-party dependencies, processing PDFs up to 3x faster than alternatives.
    Starting Price: $950 one time fee
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    PDF Enhancer
    No matter whether you perform a couple of tasks or a complex multi-step production, PDF Enhancer provides the functionality to automate the process and save you time and money. With over 500 commands controlled through a simple user interface, you control nearly every aspect of the final PDF from annotations to Unicode font tables. All with PDF Enhancer’s fast, queue-based, batch processing environment. Or if you need to control the process programmatically, PDF Enhancer is available with a Java interface or scriptable command line interface on all supported platforms and as a COM object on Windows. But don’t take our word for it, download the free trial and convince yourself. It’s fully functional for 10 days with extensions of up to 30 days if you need it. PDF Enhancer is a high-volume software utility that optimizes PDFs for a particular purpose. PDF Enhancer automates the most common document assembly and preparation tasks.
    Starting Price: $349 one-time payment
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    LightPDF

    LightPDF

    Wangxu Technology Co.,Ltd.

    LightPDF was designed to allow everyone to process PDF documents in the easiest way possible. Indeed, LightPDF comes with an easy-to-use interface. With this program, you can perfectly read PDF, edit or convert PDF. Built-in PDF editing features: Modify a PDF: add texts, annotate, insert links, add headers and footers. Convert PDF to other formats: Word, Excel, PPT, JPG, PNG, HTML, etc. Manage PDF pages: insert or delete pages, rotate pages, extract, replace, split or merge pages. Sign a PDF: add a manual or digital signature. Lock PDF: Add a password to your PDF document. Other tools: OCR, compress PDF, add background, etc. This all-in-one online PDF solution includes over 20 practical PDF tools which may simplify your digital work and boost productivity. You are able to edit, convert, compress, merge, annotate, watermark and manage PDFs or use the OCR functions without a hitch.
    Starting Price: Free
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    PDFKit.NET 5.0

    PDFKit.NET 5.0

    TallComponents

    Create and manipulate PDF documents. Split, append, stamp, encrypt, extract, fill, and more. PDFKit.NET is a 100% managed (verifiable) .NET class library for creating and manipulating PDF documents. It consists of just a single assembly that can be xcopy-deployed. It has no dependencies other than the .NET framework. Central to PDFKit.NET is a consistent and highly intuitive object model consisting of classes like document, page collection, page, canvas, shape, bookmark, annotation, field, etc. The focus of the development team is always to ease the task of integrating our class library into a larger application. Fill text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc., and save the form either editable or flattened with the PDFKit.NET 5.0. With PDFKit.NET 5.0 you can populate and consume dynamic XFA documents with the new XFA processor API. Extract all graphics on a page as a collection of shapes with PDFKit 5.0. Shapes can be text, images, and curves.
    Starting Price: $990 per year
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    Sumnotes

    Sumnotes

    Fifth Force

    An online PDF and Kindle annotation management tool that saves you hours of gruesome work. Have your PDF and Kindle annotations available for you to download in various formats in a matter of seconds. We summarize annotations from your PDFs, Kindle books and Instapaper articles. Save yourself a headache of searching for a tool to annotate and extract annotations from your books or PDF material. Sumnotes is the only simple, yet robust solution to extract annotations from PDF books, lecture notes or research papers, helping you to focus on what matters to you. With one click, import and synchronize annotations made across various platforms. With our batch import capability, importing your entire library is a breeze. We support PDF documents annotated in any official PDF software, including Adobe products and Preview on Macs. We also excited to announce that we support Kindle highlights!
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    DeftPDF

    DeftPDF

    DeftPDF

    An all-in-one free online PDF editor that does not require subscriptions or installations! DeftPDF is a free online tool that makes editing and converting easy in just a few clicks! Our servers process the files for you. Files stay secure. After processing, they are permanently deleted. Use the PDF editor to edit & sign PDF files online for free. You can also fill out PDF forms online, change or add text on a PDF, edit existing PDF text, add images, create links or edit hyperlinks, and annotate in your PDF document. You can be assured that your files are safely uploaded over an encrypted connection. The files will permanently be deleted after processing. To upload files from Dropbox, Google Drive or from a website where your files are located, expand the drop-down list and select your files. You can edit any existing text on the document and change fonts or format such as bold, italic, size and color.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Readdle PDF Converter
    PDF Converter transforms any file you have on the iPad into a PDF document. Open or download files from e-mail, cloud or web right on your iPad and convert them into good-looking PDFs. PDF Converter’s existence is devoted to this purpose, and the app does it well. Everything from a multi-million contract to a web page can be saved as a PDF in seconds. That’s right, PDF Converter can create great PDFs from almost any file type, including email attachments, iWork and MS Office files, photos, web pages, and much more. When your PDF is ready, view, annotate, edit or merge it using the powerful tools of PDF Expert. The results are accurate and identical to the original documents since we have full control of the conversion process. Also, it is 100% secure since it is done locally on the iPad. Your documents never leave it and you do not need an active online connection.
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    MiniTool PDF Editor

    MiniTool PDF Editor

    MiniTool Software Ltd.

    MiniTool PDF Editor is a program that lets you edit all your documents in PDF format. You can convert them to other formats, combine several documents into one, separate a document into several different files, and, of course, annotate documents with various writing tools. When it comes to converting PDF files, MiniTool PDF Editor offers a wide variety of different formats. You can convert any PDF document to the following formats: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, JPG, PNG, BMP, TXT, HTML, EPUB, CAD, and XPS. And, of course, you can also convert any document in one of these formats into PDF. Like this, for example, you can transform an ordinary image into a PDF in a matter of seconds. The same can be done with a spreadsheet. MiniTool PDF Editor is an excellent app, thanks to which you can modify your PDFs quickly and easily. The program's interface is also very comfortable, so you'll have no problem mastering all its features in just a few minutes.
    Starting Price: $0
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    Readiris

    Readiris

    I.R.I.S. Group

    Discover Readiris 17, PDF and OCR publishing software (optical character recognition) for windows. Have you dreamt of an intelligent, unique and intuitive solution to manage your PDF’s and paper documents? You've found it. Readiris 17 for Windows allows you to aggregate and split, edit and annotate, protect and sign your PDF’s. It’s also a global solution to convert, edit and transform all your paper documents into a variety of digital formats, intuitively with a few clicks.
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    SmartOffice

    SmartOffice

    Artifex Software

    With SmartOffice you can easily view, edit, create, print, present, and share Microsoft Office and PDF documents via your mobile device. The SmartOffice PDF functionality allows you to view, annotate, highlight and share PDF documents. Convert Office documents to PDF, save to your mobile device or to a cloud account, and print wirelessly to thousands of supported printers. SmartOffice Mobile App. A full-featured app that serves as a faster, lighter alternative to MS Office 365. SmartOffice can be downloaded from the AppStore or GooglePlay for personal use or can be wrapped in an enterprise security platform to enable secure mobile productivity. SmartOffice SDK. SmartOffice offers a variety of solutions that can be securely incorporated into your enterprise document workflow platform. The SmartOffice SDK seamlessly and securely integrates with your EFSS, MDM or EMM environment, while the SmartOffice mobile app can be wrapped in an enterprise security platform.
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    AvePDF

    AvePDF

    PSPDFKit

    Complete solutions for document processing, analysis and conversion. Providing innovative solutions for document imaging and document management. Imaging technologies. Since 2003, we develop solutions to manage electronic documents (locally or online). Below is a selection of the technologies used by ORPALIS: Full PDF support. View, process, edit, annotate, compress, and sign all your PDFs TWAIN and WIA scanning. Manage all scanners and acquisition devices. Barcode reading and writing. 1D and 2D (Datamatrix, QR-Code, Micro QR-Code, PDF417, and more). Hyper-compression. Mixed raster. Content compression, Color Detection, JBIG2 & JPEG 2000 compression. Formats support. View and convert documents in 100+ formats Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Extract text and MICR characters from scanned images. Form/template recognition. Automatic Document Recognition and forms processing. Annotations. Use various tools to annotate your documents online and offline.
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    FreePDF

    FreePDF

    SoftMaker

    The free PDF editor for personal and business use. Create, edit, view, print and annotate PDF files... free of charge! Do you want to insert pictures into a PDF file? Do you want to change the order of pages in a PDF? Do you want to add new pages or delete existing ones? You can do all of these things with FreePDF! FreePDF can perform the following tasks for you: Rearrange the order of the pages in a PDF file, insert pages from other PDFs or remove pages. Insert pictures and drawings into your PDF and position them as desired. Customize the layout of PDF files by rearranging, moving and removing text and pictures. ... and much more! Of course, FreePDF is also a great PDF viewer that lets you view and annotate PDF files quickly and conveniently. The built-in PDF printer driver creates PDF files from any Windows application. In addition, FreePDF supports the secure encryption of PDFs.
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    PDFKit

    PDFKit

    PDFKit

    PDFKit is a PDF document generation library for Node and the browser that makes creating complex, multi-page, printable documents easy. The API embraces chainability, and includes both low-level functions as well as abstractions for higher-level functionality. The PDFKit API is designed to be simple, so generating complex documents is often as simple as a few function calls. Access privileges (printing, copying, modifying, annotating, form filling, content accessibility, document assembly). Accessibility support (marked content, logical structure, Tagged PDF, PDF/UA). Supports JPEG and PNG files (including indexed PNGs, and PNGs with transparency). In addition to PDFKit, you'll need somewhere to stream the output to. Note that in order to Browserify a project using PDFKit, you need to install the brfs module with npm, which is used to load built-in font data into the package.
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    GoodReader

    GoodReader

    GoodReader

    Professional tool for creating, converting, editing, and annotating your PDF files. GoodReader® is a file viewer with many powerful features, most of which address PDF and TXT viewing. GoodReader® is a super-robust PDF editor app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Its iPad version was the #1 selling non-Apple app for iPad in 2010 in the USA, and all those years we`ve been adding new features, keeping it the best mobile productivity tool on the market. And we`ve got a lot more to come! With GoodReader on your iPad/iPhone, you can read virtually anything, anywhere, books, movies, maps, pictures. Use it once and you`ll be hooked. If you work with documents, soon you`ll be wondering how you ever managed to use your iPad or iPhone without GoodReader. GoodReader can automatically sync individual files and entire folders to their remote versions hosted on online servers. GoodReader also supports e-mail server access, and e-mail attachment downloads.
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    ImageGear

    ImageGear

    Accusoft

    This document and image clean up and processing toolkit allows developers to quickly integrate document handling functions like image conversion, creation, editing, manipulation, compression, and image enhancement to their applications. ImageGear gives your application the ability to clean up files including deskew, line and speckle removal, and more. In addition, ImageGear’s color processing tools allow you to enhance image quality resulting in a reduction in compressed file sizes. This document and image processing SDK includes a variety of APIs that enable image clean up and processing. Add functionality to your applications, learn how you can meet all your document lifecycle needs with ImageGear. This PDF SDK allows .NET developers to add robust PDF functionality to an application. Users can view, convert, annotate, compress, redact, insert, remove, or reorder pages. Learn about all of the PDF manipulation capabilities and discover how ImageGear PDF can enhance your application.
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    RadaeePDF SDK

    RadaeePDF SDK

    RadaeePDF

    This is the well-known SDK for Android, iOS and Windows UWP. Our team began its development in early 2012 and starting from May-2012 and we have never stopped improving it since. RadaeePDF Classic includes fully customizable frameworks respectively written in Java, Objective-C and C#. We complete the range with simplified Cordova and Xamarin plugins (Android and iOS). RadaeePDF Classic SDK has been adopted by more than 6000 SMB and large corporations in more than 8500 applications. Some of its included features are PDF read, different rendering layouts, support of PDF annotations, text search and extraction and dozens more. The Master Edition represents a huge step forward compared to the previous Classic version, and introduces advanced features like complete form fields manipulation, pdf linearization and optimization, xfdf import/export, signature and certificate handling, and much more.
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    jPDFEditor

    jPDFEditor

    Qoppa Software

    jPDFEditor is intended for developers and integrators. For end-users, Qoppa Software offers PDF Studio, our advanced desktop PDF editor for Mac, Windows and Linux based on our same solid PDF technology. jPDFEditor can load documents from files on a local or network drive, from a URL and from Java input streams for documents that are generated runtime or come from other sources, such as a database. After editing documents, the library can save them. Features: -Display PDF files -Print PDF files -Convert text and image files (gif, png, jpg, tiff) to PDF on the fly -Fill and save interactive PDF forms -Markup PDFs (all PDF annotations and text markups supported) -Digitally sign PDF files -Content editing -Redaction -Optional OCR module -Optional Comparison module -Access jPDFProcess powerful PDF manipulation API -Text search, selection, copy -Easy navigation with thumbnail, bookmark, annotation, signature views -Advanced tools: zoom, loupe, snapshot, pan and zoom
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    CoolNew PDF

    CoolNew PDF

    CoolNew Software

    CoolNew PDF offers all-in-one experience to awesomize your PDF experience. All the tools you’ll need to be more productive and work smarter with documents.21 tools to convert, compress, and edit PDFs . Conversion features include CAD, office, image, texted and scanned copy conversions. Editing features include text, image, eraser, page number, size, watermark, paragraph and more. Users can combine or split PDFS, extract contents and optimize pdfs. merge and compress PDF. Reading and annotation features included. It edits, annotates, converts and combines file by one click, makes your tasks finish faster. CoolNew PDF offers you a familiar experience for editing PDF, just like you did it in Office.
    Starting Price: $6.49
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    Slim PDF Reader

    Slim PDF Reader

    Apryse Software

    Copy and paste PDF text, annotate PDFs, fill out interactive PDF forms, and validate digital signatures you receive on Windows, Mac, and Linux with a lightweight & completely free Slim PDF Reader. It comes with a Dark theme setting that will help you save battery on a laptop and reduce eye strain, a full range of advanced and customizable annotation tools, various document navigation tools, search and print features, ability to copy text for pasting into another application, snapshot tool, interactive PDF form filling and signature verification features. Slim PDF Reader is one of the smallest desktop PDF readers (download size only 15 MB), 100% bloatware free, fast and easy on system resources.
    Starting Price: Free