PDFoo

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Valuable content in your PDFs is now just a click away. PDFoo allows you to create special URLs that can link to PDF pages, table of contents, and even your PDF annotations!

PDFoo opens up access to your PDFs:

• You can research, summarize, and link to content in PDFs 
• You can search a PDF and link to results from anywhere
• You can export annotations with links back into the PDF to lookup the context for these annotations

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Browse PDFoo User Guide online or download the PDF (4 MB, 18 pages).

Tutorials

• What are PDFoo URLs? A conceptual explanation.
• Taming PDFs with PDFoo - use PDFs as reference documents, like websites! See tutorial.
• Use PDFoo to export annotations in the PDF.
• Using Skim for annotating PDFs, and then PDFoo for exporting annotations.
• Build mind maps with PDFoo URLs, see tutorial.
• Visual note-taking with Curio and PDFoo, see tutorial.

See Release Notes for PDFoo.

• Version 1.5.1 released April 21, 2020.
• Version 1.5 released July 8, 2019.
• Version 1.4 released May 2, 2019

Updated April 2020. Requires macOS 10.7+​
Need multiple licenses of PDFoo? Buy at paddle.com​

Brilliant hyperlinks that point inside your PDFs

PDFoo can provide a URL to a precise location in a PDF.
​Click this URL in any compatible app and PDFoo will open the PDF to the specified location. 

Reference a page, a point, or a table of contents entry

Create URLs to a specific chapter or section by linking to the table of contents.
Precisely link into PDF textbooks or PDF packs of research articles.

Copy any text, automatically get an URL appended

Option to append a pdfoo:// URL whenever you select and copy text from the PDF.
Copy-pasting from the PDF into your notes automatically puts a reference back to source PDF for context.

"Collapse" sidebars and Pin window for an easy workflow

Move PDFoo into a narrow floating window to work side-by-side with your note-taking app.
PDFoo window can float above other apps, so you can easily copy out text or create pdfoo hyperlinks. 

Finely tune how the URLs are copied to the clipboard

Prefer to work in markdown? Configure PDFoo to generate pdfoo URLs in markdown format.
Prefer to work in rich text for your notes? Specify the font so that pdfoo URLs match the rest of your notes.