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Highlights: The PDF Reader For Research

Highlights is a PDF reader designed for research that allows users to annotate, extract text, and manage notes efficiently. It features tools for image and text recognition, citation lookup, and customizable export options, with a Pro version offering advanced functionalities. The app supports multiple devices and integrates with various applications for enhanced productivity.

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Highlights: The PDF Reader For Research

Highlights is a PDF reader designed for research that allows users to annotate, extract text, and manage notes efficiently. It features tools for image and text recognition, citation lookup, and customizable export options, with a Pro version offering advanced functionalities. The app supports multiple devices and integrates with various applications for enhanced productivity.

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Highlights

The PDF Reader


for Research
Introduction Guide
Getting Started
Welcome to a different PDF reader! Highlights extracts the
text and images you markup and formats them into notes
on the fly. It will also extract annotations from your existing
PDFs when you open them.

Let’s go through the basics of using the app starting with


the interface. The Toolbar is located at the top:
Go Back/ Show/Hide
Forward Metadata Notes
Search Print

Display Annotation Tools Share Tab


Settings Overview

By default the document window has three panes:


Thumbnails to the left, PDF in the middle and Notes on your
right. If you would like to change the size of any of the views
click and drag the divider between the views.

To show/hide the thumbnails view click the Display Settings


button to the far left in the toolbar. Similarly, to show/hide
the Notes view click the Show/Hide Notes button to the far
right in the toolbar.

Highlights for Mac supports Tabs. To open a PDF as a new


tab click the Tab Overview button and click the + symbol.

To customise the default behavior of the app and much


more check out the settings in the Preferences window
accessible from the Highlights menu in your menu bar.

When you close your PDF window the changes you have
made are automatically saved.
Annotate Faster
To annotate a PDF you select the content with your finger
and use the popover to specify the markup type:
Strikethrough Highlight Image Selection
Copy Underline Note Look Up

Annotation Color

You can also select the annotation tool first from the toolbar
and annotate with that specific tool continuously.

To annotate even faster, enable default annotation colors PRO


in Preferences under the Annotation pane.

To change an existing annotation or add a comment, click


the annotation to bring up the annotation popover:

Delete Annotation
Color
Comment

Author Modification Date


Made for Research
Extracting text is just the beginning. Highlights can extract a
range of information and is optimized for scientific articles.

Image Selection: grabs an image of the current


selection in the PDF.

iPhone & iPad Mac

Text Recognition: OCR a selection to extract PRO


text from PDFs without a working text layer.

Table Recognition: Convert image selections to PRO


tables with actual data using machine learning.

Grouping
Left align Center align Right Align
Merged Long Cell
Split 50 % 50 %
Mass 100 kg 10 mg
Time 32 s 10 h 10 min

Fetch metadata: Automatically detect DOI-links in PRO


scientific literature and download the metadata.

Citation lookup: Markup the text of a citation and PRO


click the link icon in the Annotation Popover.

Iijima, S. Nature 354, 56–58 (1991)


Export Anywhere
Click the Share icon in the toolbar to
export your Notes or the PDF itself.

Notes can be exported anywhere as


PDF files in the free version.

As a Pro user, you can export your notes


to editable formats such as Markdown,
TextBundle and HTML. You can also
PRO
open them directly in shoebox
applications like Evernote, DEVONthink,
Ulysses, Bear and Keep It.

Customize the appearance of your notes


using the Format options. Here you can
decide what to include in your Notes.

Sort your annotations by color lets you


use your own color categories and
sorting order for your annotations.

Copy the contents of an annotation using


the copy button in the popover.

Smart Copy gives you the


PRO desired format depending on the
context.

Copying an image selection will


paste a PNG, a citation a BibTex
string and a table a CSV that can
be imported into a spreadsheet.
Highlights Pro
Unlocks all the features on your iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Essentials Free Pro


Read & Annotate PDFs ✔ ✔
Smart Merge Annotations ✔ ✔
Edit PDF Metadata ✔ ✔
Handoff between iPhone, iPad and Mac ✔ ✔
Notes
Sort Annotations by Color Categories ✔ ✔
Export Notes as PDF ● ✔
Export Notes as Markdown, HTML & TextBundles ● ✔
Export Notes Directly to Other Apps ● ✔
Save Sidecar Markdown Files (macOS) ● ✔
Productivity
Text Recognition ● ✔
Table Recognition ● ✔
Smart Copy ● ✔
Custom Default Colors for Annotation Tools ● ✔
Underline Power Tools ● ✔
Selection Power Tools ● ✔
Research
Fetch Metadata ● ✔
Citation Lookup ● ✔
Integrate with Reference Managers ● ✔
Support for Math Formulas (MathJAX) ● ✔
Appearance
Dark Mode ✔ ✔

For more information see highlightsapp.net/pro


Thank you!
More tutorials and a FAQ can be found on:
highlightsapp.net

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