Highlights - PDF Viewer/Editor 4+

Read,Study,Markup & Take Notes

Jonas Myren Ribe

    • 4,5 • 265 notes
    • Gratuit
    • Inclut des achats intégrés

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Description

The PDF reader optimized for research on Mac, iPad & iPhone. Turn your annotations into powerful notes and export them anywhere, so you can focus on the bigger picture.

"It’s the novel approach to PDF annotation that makes this app a cut above the rest"- TapSmart.com

"A simple and effective tool for helping you strip key information out of research PDFs." - iCreate Magazine, Issue 221

"... an app that students, academics, and anyone who does substantial amounts of PDF-based research should try" - Macstories.net

USE HIGHLIGHTS FOR FREE
Highlights is a fast and lightweight PDF reader (under 10MB) packed with features to help with your research.

Free users have access to standard PDF reader features including document browsing, reading and annotating. There are NO ADS, time limits or tracking.

READ PDF DOCUMENTS
• Open PDFs in Single Page or Two Page scroll mode
• Double-tap with two fingers to Smart Zoom in on a paragraph or figure
• Display PDFs in regular, sepia or night appearance

HIGHLIGHT AND ANNOTATE FASTER
• Annotate with fewer clicks using context aware popovers
• Highlight, underline, strikethrough text and make image selections
• Add comments to annotations or as individual sticky notes
• Default annotation colors prevents you from having to repeatedly setting the color for the same type of annotation every time

TURN ANNOTATIONS INTO NOTES
• As you markup text and images the contents are extracted and sorted into notes
• Customize the formatting and contents of your notes
• Sort the annotations chronologically or create your own color coding

EXTRACT TABLE DATA AND RECOGNIZE TEXT
• Convert images containing text or tables to actual text and tables using machine learning - letting you get to the underlying data with a single click

SMART COPY
Copy annotations to the desired format with one click:
• Text markup as text
• Image selections as images
• Tables as CSV
• Citations as BibTex

LOOKUP CITATIONS
• Highlights will fetch DOI-links and metadata
• Markup any reference and click the link icon to look it up
• If you have read the work already or have it in your reference manager library, Highlights will link you to it

EXPORT ANYWHERE
• Save or share your notes as portable files: Markdown, TextBundle, HTML, WebArchive or PDF
• Share them to your favorite notes app: Apple Notes, Bear, Craft, Evernote, DEVONThink, Keep It, MindNode, Notion, Obsidian, Roam Research or Ulysses
• Or send them to a colleague via mail. It's your notes, you decide where they go
• Customize the contents of your notes using templates

MUCH MORE
• Night and Sepia PDF appearances
• Automatically save notes as a sidecar Markdown file
• Multi-lingual text recognition
• Default annotation colors
• Integration with reference managers like Paper and Bookends
• Integration with DEVONthink

For a full list of features see: highlightsapp.net/features

HIGHLIGHTS PRO
The Highlights Pro subscription unlocks advanced features on your iPhone, iPad and Mac:
• Export options for other apps and easily editable formats
• Extract information using table and text recognition
• Customize accent colors and alternative app icons
• Power annotation tools
• Citation lookups
• Smart Copy

Highlights Pro includes a 14-day free trial. You can cancel your subscription at any time. The subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off within 24-hour prior to the end of of the current period.

Payments will be charged to your iTunes account and your account will be charged within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription.

For more information about Highlights Pro: highlightsapp.net/pro

Privacy Policy and Terms: highlightsapp.net/privacy

Nouveautés

Version 2024.1

Ready for macOS 15 Sequoia! This release improves text recognition in images and tables with automatic language detection and support for more languages.

The new languages are: Cantonese (China mainland), Cantonese (Hong Kong), Korean, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic (Modern Standard), Arabic (Najdi)

Automatic language detection requires macOS 13 . Thai and Vietnamese requires macOS 14 Sonoma. Arabic requires macOS 15 Sequoia. All languages also work with OCR when scanning documents on iOS/iPadOS 18.

Minor improvement:
- Print dialog now includes the page range

Notes et avis

4,5 sur 5
265 notes

265 notes

A>J>R> ,

Pretty Good, Just Missing a Few Key Things

Almost perfect, but just missing two things:
(1) The ability to see the built-in PDF table of contents (not just the page thumbnails).
(2) Comments should show up as little stickies in Preview. Right now, there is no way to tell a highlight apart from a comment. If all comments could have that little sticky, it would make marked-up PDFs way more interoperable :)

ryanjamurphy ,

Huge potential, but limited in a few crucial ways

I love Highlights, but I have to keep switching to other PDF apps for a couple of reasons:
- No outline view. It's incredibly impractical to use Highlights to review a big document.
- Odd UX. On the iPad, there's a bug that causes the selection highlight to regularly disappear, so you have to guess at whether you've selected the right text, then insert the highlight, then correct any mistaken selections.
- Limited customizability in colours. For some reason, the developer's provided three strict palettes of colours. You get to choose a palette. That's it. This is counter to every other PDF editor I've used, where you can use a colour picker to set up a variety of colours specific to your needs.
- On macOS, you can't use keyboard shortcuts to manipulate selections. If you select some text, I would expect to be able to hit the highlight shortcut to highlight the selection, then hit the colour shortcut to change the colour of the highlight. Not so; all those shortcuts do is change which tool is currently enabled.

I'd also love to see:
- A more customizable toolbar. E.g., instead of showing all the colours in the palette, let set up a blue highlighter, a yellow highlighter, a red strikeout, a red underline, and that's it...
- Links to annotations. Right now the app can link to pages, which is nice, but it'd be amazing if you could link to specific annotations in Highlights.
- Less of a focus on metadata and reference management. Yes, picking up the DOI and filling in some PDF attributes is a neat trick, but that's what reference managers are for.

Sorry for the critical review. It's just that Highlights is so close to being the only PDF viewer I would ever use or recommend. Instead, I'm slightly disappointed whenever I try to use it.

Anesthesia MD Canada ,

Responsive developer and nice program

I emailed the developer and received a response a few hours later.

I am hopeful this app will continue to be improved. It has a lot of promise. It is already very useful.

The table recognition from a journal article is truly amazing and useful.

Réponse du développeur ,

Thank you for the kind words! We have a lot of plans for future improvements:)

Abonnements

Highlights Pro
Highlights Pro
Convert PDF Annotations into Notes and Export
Essai gratuit

Confidentialité de l’app

Le développeur Jonas Myren Ribe a indiqué que les pratiques de l’app en matière de confidentialité peuvent comprendre le traitement des données comme décrit ci‑dessous. Pour en savoir plus, consultez la politique de confidentialité du développeur.

Données non recueillies

Le développeur ne recueille aucune donnée avec cette app.

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