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Overview

Annotations allow users to highlight paragraphs, add comments, markup, sign, or stamp PDF documents without modifying the original author's content. The annotated content, along with the original text, can then be shared together.

Benefits of ComPDFKit PDF Annotation

  • Comprehensive Type Support: Enables highlighting, text, freehand drawing, shapes, stamps, and more.
  • Create, Edit, Delete: Perform creation, editing, and deletion operations either programmatically or directly through the UI.
  • Flattened Annotations: Embed annotations permanently onto the document as images, ensuring document appearance stability and preventing further modifications.
  • Annotation Events: Trigger specified workflows to achieve automation.
  • Annotation Import and Export: Export annotations as XFDF templates and apply them to multiple documents.
  • Fast UI Integration: Achieve rapid integration and customization through extensible UI components.

Guides for Annotations

  • Create Annotations

    Generate annotations of various types.

  • Delete Annotations

    Remove an annotation from the document.

  • Import and Export

    Export annotations as XFDF templates and apply them to multiple documents.

  • Flatten Annotations

    Permanently embed existing annotations within the document as images.