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How to highlight and mark up a PDF on Android

Reviewing a contract or studying notes? PageCat lets you highlight, underline and strike out text, draw circles, boxes and arrows, and add sticky notes, then save them into the PDF so others see them too.

Works on Android 8 and later · Free · 4 steps

Steps

  1. Open the PDF and tap the pen icon (Annotate & fill).

    PageCat PDF screen: Open the PDF and tap the pen icon (Annotate & fill).

  2. Choose Highlight and drag across the text.

    PageCat PDF screen: Choose Highlight and drag across the text.

  3. Pick Oval, Rectangle or Arrow, choose a colour, and drag to draw.

    PageCat PDF screen: Pick Oval, Rectangle or Arrow, choose a colour, and drag to draw.

  4. Tap Save. Your marks are stored in the PDF as standard annotations.

Good to know

Questions

Will others see my highlights?

Yes. PageCat saves standard PDF annotations, which other PDF apps show too.

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