Intro
Annotation apps are useful for both individuals and groups because they can help users review and make changes to an important PDF text. The apps function like any other word processing document, but they are more precise in their function and have certain limitations, depending on what app is being used. Still, these apps are among the best ways to annotate PDFs, when all users need to do is to make slight changes to a text, add new text or remove unnecessary text.
Highlighting and Replacing Text
A highlighter is useful in both the paper realm of hard copy documents and in the digital realm of PDF texts. They can help people, from students, academics, and scientists, to business people, lawyers and other professionals make sense of a particular document by letting them focus on the most important parts.
With PDF documents, highlighters can also mark text that needs to be changed, removed, or replaced or help people remember important phrases, facts, and items from the text. Apart from highlighting, users can also replace or mark text for removal by using the strikethrough feature, as well as underlining problematic text.
Deleting Text
The main feature of any PDF note taker is the ability to manipulate text, whether it be to add new text, remove the text or delete entire passages. Users can perform any of those functions with an annotation app that lets them select specific lines, pages, or passages for removal. A program like Lumin PDF has those capabilities and lets users remove entire pages of text if they so desire.
In Lumin, users can open a PDF file in the program and select the highlight tool to mark specific passages or sentences for removal. They can also add a comment to remove this particular sentence for a colleague or collaborator. Individuals working on their text can also straight-up delete the unwanted line or passage using Lumin’s text tool.
Adding and Editing Sticky Notes
Sticky and Post-It notes were the most common way for people to make quick notes to keep track of all their thoughts and ideas. But after a while, attaching more and more sticky notes to a text became messy and cluttered. With digital documents, however, users can still place notes on their text, but in a more organized fashion.
Users can leave comments wherever they want on a PDF file with an annotation app. The selected text is left highlighted with the comment in the margins for everyone to see if working in a group. Users can add as many notes as they want and approved users can also make changes to them by adding their thoughts and ideas to the notes.
Deleting a Sticky Note
Once a user has added a note or annotation to a text, it is not a permanent fixture to the document. Users can add their notes or comments to a text for others to see if they have collaborators, or simply as a reminder to themselves to correct or improve the highlighted text. Once the changes have been made, however, users can simply delete the note.
