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 five alternatives to Highlights for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Windows apps. The best Highlights alternative is MarginNote, which is free. Other great apps like Highlights are PdfHighlights, Sumnotes, ZotFile and Bibliome.

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  1. MarginNote icon

    MarginNote

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    Integrating powerful tools for book annoation, mindmapping, flashcards and more, to build up your reading notes as never before.

    12 MarginNote alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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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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  4. Sumnotes icon

    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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    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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    Bibliome

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    A PDF library for Mac that files documents by topic, makes scans searchable, redacts, and answers questions with citations, all on device.

    17 Bibliome alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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