List every annotation in a PDF in your browser: links, highlights, notes, form widgets — with page, text and destination, exportable as CSV.
Choose a PDF to see its outline here.
Your file is never sent to a server. It is read and processed by your own browser, and the results are not stored.
Legal, compliance and QA workflows routinely need to know what a PDF claims: every outgoing link, every highlight, every note. Doing that by eyeballing pages does not scale; doing it by reading the file object structure is exact. This tool is that inventory, with a CSV at the end.
Graphics annotations (freehand ink, images) are listed too — as subtypes, not as images.
The subtype is the annotation’s declared kind — Link, Highlight, Text, FreeText, Widget. It comes straight from the file, so it is authoritative, but it is not a promise of anything about visual appearance or workflow intent.
No. PDF Annotation Inspector runs in your browser, and the file is read there rather than sent to a server for processing. Our host still sees ordinary page-request metadata, which is described on the privacy page.
Yes, PDF Annotation Inspector is free, with no paid tier, no account, and no watermark added to your output. The limits are technical rather than commercial: file size, page count and supported formats are listed on this page.
PDF Annotation Inspector supports .pdf files up to 100MB directly in your browser.
No. It is strictly read-only: nothing is modified, flattened, printed or uploaded. You get an inventory.
Everything the renderer sees: link annotations (URLs and internal destinations), text notes, highlights, stamps, free-text, file attachments and form-widget visuals. The subtype reported is the one the PDF declares.
Yes — download a CSV with page, subtype, text, target and destination page for every annotation, ready for a review log or spreadsheet.
No. The PDF is inspected in this tab; the annotation data never leaves your device.