Highlight words in Document Viewer

pdf document

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Solution 1

Document Viewer DOES actually support annotations and highlightings in PDF files (not in other formats). Just click on that notebook like button and you'll be able to annotate and highlight text.

Solution 2

Try Mendeley (https://www.mendeley.com/)! It does the work like a charm!

In fact, Mendeley is more than a PDF-reader. You can use it to organize your docs and references.

Solution 3

Document Viewer doesn't support highlighting install another application such as FoxIt Reader. I prefer foxit because it's simple to use and if you install on Windows, Mac or mobile keep the highlighting and attachments.

To install foxit reader :

Open Foxit website.
Click "Free download" and it will detect operating system then click "Download".
Extract the file you downloaded.
Double click the .run file and install.

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RD017

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

RD017 almost 2 years

I am currently using Ubuntu 15.10. I need to highlight some sentences and/or paragraphs for easy searching but I can't find any option for this in the "Document Viewer" which is the default application for pdf files.
- Admin about 8 years
  
  document viewer not supporting highlighting install another application such as foxit reader
- Admin about 8 years
  
  I use okular for that.
- Admin about 8 years
  
  Possible duplicate of Which PDF Viewer would you recommend?
- Admin about 8 years
  
  Then what is the best and lightweight application for this?
- Admin about 8 years
  
  i prefer foxit it's simple to use and if you install on windows mac or any mobile keep the highlighting and attachments
- Admin about 8 years
  
  how can I install foxit?
- Admin about 8 years
  
  Possible duplicate of How can I highlight or annotate PDFs?
- Admin about 8 years
  
  Re "Possible duplicate" reports - The landscape of programs might've changed a lot in the intervening 6 years since those threads, or I hope it has... so I think it's valid to reevaluate the question.
- Admin about 8 years
  
  @underscore_d offer a bounty on it. It's a standard bounty reason: "The current answer(s) are out-of-date and require revision …"
- Admin about 8 years
  
  @muru Fair point, I didn't know about that, and using that to update an existing question would be tidier than having a new one every N years :-)
- Admin over 7 years
  
  @underscore_d I updated my "Document Viewer" answer to How can I highlight or annotate PDFs? 6 weeks ago.
- Admin almost 4 years
  
  Ctrl + H: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/437335/…
GStav over 6 years

You will be able to highlight but not delete the highlights :(
consuela over 6 years

@GStav You can right click on the highlighted text and select Remove annotation. You can also right click and select Annotation properties and change colour etc.
geogeek over 5 years

THIS MUST BE MOST UPVOTED ANSWER
NVS Abhilash over 5 years

Does anyone knows the keyboard shortcut for this?
balu about 5 years

@NVSAbhilash I read somewhere that the key bindings are s for sticky notes and Ctrl+h (or at least will be in a future release).
Catbuilts almost 5 years

short and simple. Thanks