Export PDF Annotations.

The preview lists only the current page, with eight entries at a time when there are many annotations. Expanding a row shows the written comment, subject, recoverable marked text and a reply reference when present. The blue location outline is a preview aid.

The count in Settings follows the current page and chosen type filters. It is not a count for the whole document. Scanning all pages starts when you choose Export annotations.

Comments & text notes includes sticky comments, free text and insertion marks. Highlights & text marks includes highlighting, underlining, wavy underlining and strikethrough. Drawings & shapes covers lines, shapes and ink strokes. Stamps & other annotations includes other readable annotation records.

Every included annotation becomes one report row, even if it has no written comment. Replies remain separate rows and can reference their parent ID. Link annotations, popup containers and interactive form fields are excluded. Attachment annotations can contribute their note, but attached files, stamp images and drawing geometry are not exported as reusable assets.

The tool uses character positions to recover selected words and multiple marked lines. Existing Arabic comments and recoverable Arabic text are supported. CSV and TXT use UTF-8; JSON keeps Unicode text. Complex writing order or broken character maps in the PDF can still affect the extracted passage, so review important quotations.

Image-only scans have no selectable text to recover unless an OCR text layer was added earlier. Their real comment annotations can still be exported. Turn Include marked text off if you only need comments and metadata or a difficult page exceeds the extraction limits.

CSV provides page, type, author, subject, comment, marked text, creation/modification dates, annotation ID, reply reference and review state. Spreadsheet-like formulas in text cells are escaped for safer opening; use JSON or TXT when you need those strings without the spreadsheet escape. Import the CSV as UTF-8 if your spreadsheet does not detect it.

TXT is a readable report with localized headings. JSON provides structured records, including original annotation type names, color values and page-relative bounds. Dates are UTC when present. These are reports, not XFDF/FDF backups for restoring annotations to another PDF. Missing authors, dates or comments remain blank.

Open one unencrypted PDF within the displayed file and page limits. The original document is not uploaded. Large files or dense comments may take longer; processing remains bounded and reports an error rather than quietly omitting records when a limit is reached.

If there are no matching annotations, the result explicitly says so and the report contains no annotation rows. Back lets you revise filters or choose another source page. Start over clears the workspace. Download the report before closing the page.