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Version: Version 1.5

Manage annotations

The Toolbox add-on lets you manage annotations in PDF documents. PDF annotations are elements that allow you to add comments, suggestions, and markup like shapes and highlights to PDFs. Annotations are not part of the page content as they are applied on the top of a page. In contrast to ordinary page content, many annotation types behave interactively in PDF viewers.

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This functionality is part of the Toolbox add-on, a separate SDK that you can use with the same license key as the Pdftools SDK. To use and integrate this add-on, review Getting started with the Toolbox add-on and Toolbox add-on code samples.

The Toolbox add-on supports the following types of annotations:

TypeAnnotation name
Text MarkupHighlight
Popup
StickyNote
StrikeThrough
Underline
ShapeEllipse
Ink
Line
Polygon
PolyLine
Rectangle
Squiggly
NavigationInternalLink
WebLink
StampTextStamp
CustomStamp
FileFileAttachment

Manage annotations

Learn how to add annotations to a PDF using the Add annotations sample project.

Quick start

Download the full sample now in C# and Java.

Interested in C or other language samples? Let us know on the contact page, and we'll add it to our samples backlog.