Export PDF Annotations

Why export PDF annotations? 
Do you read and refer to important PDF documents at work? Do you make notes and annotations using tools like Preview.app on Mac OS X and iAnnotate or GoodReader on iPad? Are your insightful notes locked away in the PDF? Would you like to make your notes accessible and easily searchable? PDFoo enables you to export notes and comments from these PDFs into text to share easily with your colleagues, or to index and search inside your favorite note-taking application. PDF annotations are largely useless without context however. Using PDFoo app, you can easily attach pdfoo:// URLs to each text annotation, and the context for each note is just a click away.

Workflow Guide
PDFoo can export notes and highlight annotations from your PDF to a text file (RTF format). Further, it inserts pdfoo:// URLs to link back to the location for each note in the original PDF. Simply follow the pdfoo URL to open up the PDF and view the context for the annotation. The workflow is as follows:

1. Use Preview.app or any other PDF annotation tool to create text, note and highlight annotations in your PDF.
2. Open up the PDF in PDFoo via File > Open... command
3. Assign a Prefix to the PDF via PDF menu > Set Prefix... command, or the toolbar button, or CMD-L shortcut. This prefix will be used in generating pdfoo:// URLs.
4. Use File menu > Export PDF Annotations... command, or Opt-CMD-A shortcut
5. PDFoo generates a RTF text file with the text of annotations together with pdfoo:// links. Save the contents via copy-paste into Evernote, DEVONthink Pro Office, or any other rich-text compatible application. Clicking on any of the pdfoo:// URls will open up the original PDF to the correct location.

More about PDFoo
Watch the PDFoo Quick Guide video, or skim the PDFoo overview document, or download and try out "PDFoo Lite", and purchase the unrestricted version of PDFoo on the Mac App Store.