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PDF Annotation Editor
Add printable highlight, drawing and note annotations to PDF pages locally.
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Runs locally in your browser. Your files, pasted content and generated output are not uploaded. Reset clears this tool’s working data.
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How to use this tool
- Choose the local source file.
- Choose a page and select Preview page. Drag a rectangle or draw a line; alternatively enter the coordinate controls and choose Add mark from coordinates.
- Review the mark list and page preview; use Undo or Clear all marks to correct placement.
- Choose Create output. Review the result and limitations, then download and inspect the output.
- Use Cancel to stop processing or Reset to clear the inputs and results.
Examples
Highlight a passage and attach a comment using printable PDF annotations.
Limitations
- Local worker processing with a 120-second deadline. Cancel and Reset discard results and stop the processing worker. No input is uploaded.
- One PDF up to 50 MiB and 500 pages; at most 500 marks and 20,000 drawing points. Coordinates are points from the visible page’s top-left; rotated CropBox coordinates are normalized. Original forms, annotations, bookmarks, attachments and document actions are omitted.
- Highlight, Ink and Text annotations have printable appearance streams. Note contents open in supporting readers. This creates a new PDF and does not edit source annotations.
- Overlay and annotation output can retain hidden objects from original page contents. It is not redaction or anonymization.
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