Highlights: PDF & Anteckningar
Read，Study & Convert Documents
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The PDF reader optimized for research on Mac, iPad & iPhone. Turn your annotations into powerful notes and export them anywhere, so you can focus on the bigger picture.
"... an app that students, academics, and anyone who does substantial amounts of PDF-based research should try" - Macstories.net
"It’s the novel approach to PDF annotation that makes this app a cut above the rest"- TapSmart.com
*** "App of the Day" - App Store, US ***
USE HIGHLIGHTS FOR FREE
Highlights is a fast and lightweight PDF reader (under 10MB) packed with features to help you do your best research.
Free users have access to standard PDF reader features including document browsing, reading and annotating. There are NO ADS, time limits or tracking.
READ PDF DOCUMENTS
• Open PDF documents from anywhere
• Browse files using the familiar document browser
• Open PDFs in Single Page or Two Page scroll mode
• Double tap to Smart Zoom in on a paragraph or figure
• Scrub smoothly to the desired page
• Search the entire document in an instant
• Navigate using any connected keyboard or mouse
STORE YOUR FILES WHERE YOU WANT
• Full support for "Open In Place" lets you make edits to the file where it is
• Access your files from iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or Box using the document browser
• Or keep them privately on device only
HIGHLIGHT AND ANNOTATE FASTER
• Select text with your finger, Apple Pencil or mouse pointer
• Highlight, underline, strikethrough text and make image selections
• Add comments to annotations or as individual sticky notes
• Annotate with fewer taps using context aware popovers
• Default annotation colors prevents you from having to repeatedly setting the color for the same type of annotation every time
TURN ANNOTATIONS INTO NOTES
• As you markup text and images the contents are extracted and sorted into notes
• Customize the formatting and contents of your notes
• Sort the annotations chronologically or create your own color coding
EXTRACT TABLE DATA AND RECOGNIZE TEXT
• Convert images containing text or tables to actual text and tables using machine learning - letting you get to the underlying data with a single tap
SMART COPY
Copy annotations to the desired format with one tap:
• Text markup as text
• Image selections as images
• Tables as CSV
• Citations as BibTex
LOOKUP CITATIONS
• Highlights will fetch DOI-links and metadata
• Markup any reference and tap the link icon to look it up
• If you have read the work already or have it in your reference manager library, Highlights will link you to it
EXPORT ANYWHERE
• Save or share your notes as portable files: Markdown, TextBundle, HTML, WebArchive or PDF
• Share them to your favorite notes app: Apple Notes, Bear, Craft, Evernote, DEVONThink, Keep It, MindNode, Notion, Obsidian, Roam Research or Ulysses
• Or send them to a colleague via mail. It's your notes, you decide where they go
MUCH MORE
• Dark mode
• Multi-window support on iPadOS
• Keyboard shortcuts and navigation
• Support for system Copy and Undo gestures
• Alternative app icons
• Custom accent colors
• Apple Pencil double-tap gestures
• Power annotation tools
For a full list of features see: highlightsapp.net/features
HIGHLIGHTS PRO
The Highlights Pro subscription unlocks advanced features on your iPhone, iPad and Mac:
• Export options for other apps and easily editable formats
• Extract information using table and text recognition
• Customize accent colors and alternative app icons
• Power annotation tools
• Citation lookups
• Smart Copy
Highlights Pro includes a 14-day free trial. You can cancel your subscription at any time. The subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off within 24-hour prior to the end of of the current period.
Payments will be charged to your iTunes account and your account will be charged within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription.
For more information about Highlights Pro: highlightsapp.net/pro
Privacy Policy: highlightsapp.net/privacy
Terms of Use: highlightsapp.net/terms
Mer When jumping in a document, e.g. clicking on reference in a paper and then pressing the Back button to return to where the reference was, the app consistently jumps to the start of the next page. That breaks the flow in a small and annoying way, and makes one wary of leaving one’s place in the document. Which is very much needed for reading e.g. scientific papers with references to other papers, figures etc.Otherwise this is the best app I’ve found for this type of thing.
When jumping in a document, e.g. clicking on reference in a paper and then pressing the Back button to return to where the reference was, the app consistently jumps to the start of the next page. That breaks the flow in a small and annoying way, and makes one wary of leaving one’s place in the document. Which is very much needed for reading e.g. scientific papers with references to other papers, figures etc.Otherwise this is the best app I’ve found for this type of thing.
I am forced to give a bad rating and review because two emails that I have sent several weeks ago on different topics have been ignored. My questions were not covered in the tutorials. When one pays for a year subscription, timely answers to simple queries are expected. Otherwise the functions this app provides are indispensable to my studies and I appreciate it very much.
I am forced to give a bad rating and review because two emails that I have sent several weeks ago on different topics have been ignored. My questions were not covered in the tutorials. When one pays for a year subscription, timely answers to simple queries are expected. Otherwise the functions this app provides are indispensable to my studies and I appreciate it very much.
Going from preview to this is such a huge difference! Highly recommend, the experience is amazing.
Going from preview to this is such a huge difference! Highly recommend, the experience is amazing.
The iOS and iPadOS 27 release with support for Siri AI. You can ask it to do simple actions:
- "Scan using Highlights"
- "Open Highlights"
Or perform fuzzy searches:
- "Find the PDF where they discuss 3D paper based microfluidics"
- "Search for PDF articles from the journal PNAS"
Or make requests based on the document you have open:
- "Mail this to ..."
- "Does this article have any supplementary information?"
- "Do the authors have a website?"
- "Have they published anything together recently?"
You can both talk and type to Siri AI. You do not need to choose your words as carefully as previously and it is much better at understanding context. Siri AI requires iOS and iPadOS 27 and a compatible device.
This release also brings:
- A refined Liquid Glass design with updated app icons
- Annotations with comments now render with a text bubble icon next to them in the PDF to let you know which have comments at a glance
- New languages for OCR and text recognition in image selections: Finnish, Hindi and Marathi
2026.2.1 14 sep.
The iOS and iPadOS 27 release with support for Siri AI. You can ask it to do simple actions:
- "Scan using Highlights"
- "Open Highlights"
Or perform intricate requests based on the document you have open:
- "Does this article have any supplementary information?"
- "Do the authors have a website?"
- "Have they published anything together recently?"
You can both talk and type to Siri AI. You do not need to choose your words as carefully as previously and it is much better at understanding context. Siri AI requires iOS and iPadOS 27 and a compatible device.
This release also brings a refined Liquid Glass design with updated app icons. Furthermore annotations with comments now render with a text bubble icon next to them in the PDF to make it possible to know which have comments at a glance. New languages are also available for OCR and text recognition in image selections: Finnish, Hindi and Marathi.
2026.2 12 sep.
Dark appearance for PDFs! Smart content handling gives your PDFs light text on a dark background without changing images and annotations. This can reduce eye strain and improve readability in dark environments while conserving battery life. To try it out: open a PDF document and go to Settings from the More menu in the top right corner, then set Auto Dark as your Appearance. The setting is also available in the menu bar on iPad under View. The Auto Dark setting will automatically match the PDF appearance to the system appearance. No more glaring white pages in Dark Mode!
The new dark appearance for PDFs requires a device running iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 set to Dark Mode.
Minor improvements:
- Fixed a potential crash when generating thumbnails
- Fixed an issue with quoted text in markdown exports containing line breaks
- Tweaked onboarding animation transitions and colors
- New onboarding flow
2026.1.4 4 juli
Dark appearance for PDFs! Smart content handling gives your PDFs light text on a dark background without changing images and annotations. This can reduce eye strain and improve readability in dark environments while conserving battery life. To try it out: open a PDF document and go to Settings from the More menu in the top right corner, then set Auto Dark as your Appearance. The setting is also available in the menu bar on iPad under View. The Auto Dark setting will automatically match the PDF appearance to the system appearance. No more glaring white pages in Dark Mode!
The new dark appearance for PDFs requires a device running iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 set to Dark Mode.
Minor improvements:
- Fixed an issue with quoted text in markdown exports containing line breaks
- Tweaked onboarding animation transitions and colors
- New onboarding flow
2026.1.3 6 juni
Dark appearance for PDFs! Smart content handling gives your PDFs light text on a dark background without changing images and annotations. This can reduce eye strain and improve readability in dark environments while conserving battery life. To try it out: open a PDF document and go to Settings from the More menu in the top right corner, then set Auto Dark as your Appearance. The setting is also available in the menu bar on iPad under View. The Auto Dark setting will automatically match the PDF appearance to the system appearance. No more glaring white pages in Dark Mode!
The new dark appearance for PDFs requires a device running iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 set to Dark Mode.
Minor improvements:
- Tweaked onboarding animation transitions and colors
- New onboarding flow
2026.1.2 22 maj
Dark appearance for PDFs! Smart content handling gives your PDFs light text on a dark background without changing images and annotations. This can reduce eye strain and improve readability in dark environments while conserving battery life. To try it out: open a PDF document and go to Settings from the More menu in the top right corner, then set Auto Dark as your Appearance. The setting is also available in the menu bar on iPad under View. The Auto Dark setting will automatically match the PDF appearance to the system appearance. No more glaring white pages in Dark Mode!
The new dark appearance for PDFs requires a device running iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 set to Dark Mode.
Minor improvement:
- New onboarding flow
2026.1.1 21 apr.
Dark appearance for PDFs! Smart content handling gives your PDFs light text on a dark background without changing images and annotations. This can reduce eye strain and improve readability in dark environments while conserving battery life. To try it out: open a PDF document and go to Settings from the More menu in the top right corner, then set Auto Dark as your Appearance. The setting is also available in the menu bar on iPad under View. The Auto Dark setting will automatically match the PDF appearance to the system appearance. No more glaring white pages in Dark Mode!
The new dark appearance for PDFs requires a device running iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 set to Dark Mode.
2026.1 28 jan.
Liquid Glass design on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 with new app icons, transparent toolbars and a floating thumbnail sidebar.
The iPad version gains even more desktop-class features with freely resizable windows with window controls, a menu bar and a new sidebar floating above the content. Navigation has been improved and now resemble the macOS version in even more ways. The new menu bar makes it easy to find functionality or the correct window, thanks to the new window titles. The document browser has also been improved and now lets you set the default app for opening PDFs (long press on a file and go to Get Info)!
New languages are also available for OCR and text recognition in image selections: Turkish, Indonesian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Malay, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.
Minor improvements:
- Updated the Introduction Guide
- Fixed an issue preventing certain types of internal links and URL-schemes in comments from working
- Alert the user when trying to export to apps that are not installed
- Tapping on links inside paragraphs of notes no longer toggle the visibility of toolbars
- Alert the user when tapping on links using a URL-scheme that have no response
- The menu bar can now open Tutorials, What's New and Send Feedback from the document browser
- Removed separator line between thumbnails on iOS 26
- Fixed centering of tables in notes
- Fixed an edge-case where the bottom toolbar on iOS 18 and earlier would show up without a background color when changing to a compact layout with a document open
- The markup palette now hides automatically when the view is not tall enough to fit it
- The squeeze tool palette no longer displays underneath the sidebar when close to the left edge
- Fixed an issue where the document scanner on an iPhone would not launch if a document was displayed
- Fixed a crash related to grabbing image selections on first parse
- It is no longer possible to scroll a PDF while dismissing it with an edge swipe
2025.1.5 2025-11-03
Liquid Glass design on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 with new app icons, transparent toolbars and a floating thumbnail sidebar.
The iPad version gains even more desktop-class features with freely resizable windows with window controls, a menu bar and a new sidebar floating above the content. Navigation has been improved and now resemble the macOS version in even more ways. The new menu bar makes it easy to find functionality or the correct window, thanks to the new window titles. The document browser has also been improved and now lets you set the default app for opening PDFs (long press on a file and go to Get Info)!
New languages are also available for OCR and text recognition in image selections: Turkish, Indonesian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Malay, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.
Minor improvements:
- Fixed an issue preventing certain types of internal links and URL-schemes in comments from working
- Alert the user when trying to export to apps that are not installed
- Tapping on links inside paragraphs of notes no longer toggle the visibility of toolbars
- Alert the user when tapping on links using a URL-scheme that have no response
- The menu bar can now open Tutorials, What's New and Send Feedback from the document browser
- Removed separator line between thumbnails on iOS 26
- Fixed centering of tables in notes
- Fixed an edge-case where the bottom toolbar on iOS 18 and earlier would show up without a background color when changing to a compact layout with a document open
- The markup palette now hides automatically when the view is not tall enough to fit it
- The squeeze tool palette no longer displays underneath the sidebar when close to the left edge
- Fixed an issue where the document scanner on an iPhone would not launch if a document was displayed
- Fixed a crash related to grabbing image selections on first parse
- It is no longer possible to scroll a PDF while dismissing it with an edge swipe
2025.1.4 2025-10-23
Liquid Glass design on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 with new app icons, transparent toolbars and a floating thumbnail sidebar.
The iPad version gains even more desktop-class features with freely resizable windows with window controls, a menu bar and a new sidebar floating above the content. Navigation has been improved and now resemble the macOS version in even more ways. The new menu bar makes it easy to find functionality or the correct window, thanks to the new window titles. The document browser has also been improved and now lets you set the default app for opening PDFs (long press on a file and go to Get Info)!
New languages are also available for OCR and text recognition in image selections: Turkish, Indonesian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Malay, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.
Minor improvements:
- The menu bar can now open Tutorials, What's New and Send Feedback from the document browser
- Removed separator line between thumbnails on iOS 26
- Fixed centering of tables in notes
- Fixed an edge-case where the bottom toolbar on iOS 18 and earlier would show up without a background color when changing to a compact layout with a document open
- The markup palette now hides automatically when the view is not tall enough to fit it
- The squeeze tool palette no longer displays underneath the sidebar when close to the left edge
- Fixed an issue where the document scanner on an iPhone would not launch if a document was displayed
- Fixed a crash related to grabbing image selections on first parse
- It is no longer possible to scroll a PDF while dismissing it with an edge swipe
2025.1.3 2025-10-09
Liquid Glass design on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 with new app icons, transparent toolbars and a floating thumbnail sidebar.
The iPad version gains even more desktop-class features with freely resizable windows with window controls, a menu bar and a new sidebar floating above the content. Navigation has been improved and now resemble the macOS version in even more ways. The new menu bar makes it easy to find functionality or the correct window, thanks to the new window titles. The document browser has also been improved and now lets you set the default app for opening PDFs (long press on a file and go to Get Info)!
New languages are also available for OCR and text recognition in image selections: Turkish, Indonesian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Malay, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.
Minor improvements:
- Fixed centering of tables in notes
- Fixed an edge-case where the bottom toolbar on iOS 18 and earlier would show up without a background color when changing to a compact layout with a document open
- The markup palette now hides automatically when the view is not tall enough to fit it
- The squeeze tool palette no longer displays underneath the sidebar when close to the left edge
- Fixed an issue where the document scanner on an iPhone would not launch if a document was displayed
- Fixed a crash related to grabbing image selections on first parse
- It is no longer possible to scroll a PDF while dismissing it with an edge swipe
2025.1.2 2025-09-25
Liquid Glass design on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 with new app icons, transparent toolbars and a floating thumbnail sidebar.
The iPad version gains even more desktop-class features with freely resizable windows with window controls, a menu bar and a new sidebar floating above the content. Navigation has been improved and now resemble the macOS version in even more ways. The new menu bar makes it easy to find functionality or the correct window, thanks to the new window titles. The document browser has also been improved and now lets you set the default app for opening PDFs (long press on a file and go to Get Info)!
New languages are also available for OCR and text recognition in image selections: Turkish, Indonesian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Malay, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.
Minor improvements:
- The markup palette now hides automatically when the view is not tall enough to fit it
- The squeeze tool palette no longer displays underneath the sidebar when close to the left edge
- Fixed an issue where the document scanner on an iPhone would not launch if a document was displayed
- Fixed a crash related to grabbing image selections on first parse
- It is no longer possible to scroll a PDF while dismissing it with an edge swipe
2025.1.1 2025-09-21
Liquid Glass design on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 with new app icons, transparent toolbars and a floating thumbnail sidebar.
The iPad version gains even more desktop-class features with freely resizable windows with window controls, a menu bar and a new sidebar floating above the content. Navigation has been improved and now resemble the macOS version in even more ways. The new menu bar makes it easy to find functionality or the correct window, thanks to the new window titles. The document browser has also been improved and now lets you set the default app for opening PDFs (long press on a file and go to Get Info)!
New languages are also available for OCR and text recognition in image selections: Turkish, Indonesian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Malay, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.
Minor improvements:
- Fixed a crash related to grabbing image selections on first parse
- It is no longer possible to scroll a PDF while dismissing it with an edge swipe
2025.1 2025-09-12
Writing tools: summarize the selected text in a PDF with a tap or proofread and rewrite your notes. Text recognition on images and tables has been improved with automatic language detection and extended language support: Cantonese (China mainland), Cantonese (Hong Kong), Korean, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic (Modern Standard) and Arabic (Najdi).
Minor improvement:
- Fixed a crash related to state tracking for document layout and palette position
- Fixed a crash related to updating thumbnails
- Fixes an issue where notes appear blank for a small subset of documents just after opening
*Writing tools requires iOS/iPadOS 18.1 and a compatible device. Automatic language detection requires iOS/iPadOS 16 or newer. Support for Thai and Vietnamese requires iOS/iPadOS 17. Arabic requires iOS/iPadOS 18.
2024.2.3 2024-11-28
Writing tools: summarize the selected text in a PDF with a tap or proofread and rewrite your notes. Text recognition on images and tables has been improved with automatic language detection and extended language support: Cantonese (China mainland), Cantonese (Hong Kong), Korean, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic (Modern Standard) and Arabic (Najdi).
Minor improvement:
- Fixed a crash related to updating thumbnails
- Fixes an issue where notes appear blank for a small subset of documents just after opening
*Writing tools requires iOS/iPadOS 18.1 and a compatible device. Automatic language detection requires iOS/iPadOS 16 or newer. Support for Thai and Vietnamese requires iOS/iPadOS 17. Arabic requires iOS/iPadOS 18.
2024.2.2 2024-11-20
Writing tools: summarize the selected text in a PDF with a tap or proofread and rewrite your notes. Text recognition on images and tables has been improved with automatic language detection and extended language support: Cantonese (China mainland), Cantonese (Hong Kong), Korean, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic (Modern Standard) and Arabic (Najdi).
Minor improvement:
- Fixes an issue where notes appear blank for a small subset of documents just after opening
*Writing tools requires iOS/iPadOS 18.1 and a device compatible with Apple Intelligence. Automatic language detection requires iOS/iPadOS 16 or newer. Support for Thai and Vietnamese requires iOS/iPadOS 17. Arabic requires iOS/iPadOS 18.
2024.2.1 2024-11-09
Writing tools: summarize the selected text in a PDF with a tap or proofread and rewrite your notes. Text recognition on images and tables has been improved with automatic language detection and extended language support: Cantonese (China mainland), Cantonese (Hong Kong), Korean, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic (Modern Standard) and Arabic (Najdi).
*Writing tools requires iOS/iPadOS 18.1 and a device compatible with Apple Intelligence. Automatic language detection requires iOS/iPadOS 16 or newer. Support for Thai and Vietnamese requires iOS/iPadOS 17. Arabic requires iOS/iPadOS 18.
2024.2 2024-11-02
The big iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 update combined with a completely new way of annotating using the Apple Pencil!
Launch the document scanner directly from the new Control Center widget or from a lock screen control by replacing the camera or torchlight buttons. Try the new app icons with a dark look that can automatically switch with Dark Mode or tint the app icon and Home Screen widget to match your favorite color.
Annotate like a pro using the new Apple Pencil Pro. Squeeze your Apple Pencil Pro to bring up a floating tool palette right where your pencil tip is. The Apple Pencil Pro provides haptic feedback when the gesture is recognized and the new hover preview lets you see the selected color and tool before your tip touches the screen.
These new Apple Pencil features require an iPad running iPadOS 17.5 or newer. Hover preview works with any Apple Pencil except the 1st generation. The floating tool palette requires an Apple Pencil Pro or the Apple Pencil 2nd generation (with the Double-tap gesture in Highlights set to Tool Palette in Settings > Apple Pencil).
Minor improvement:
- Fixed an issue with widgets disappearing on iOS and iPadOS 17
- Fixed an issue where marking up using Apple Pencil with hover activated would use the default color instead of the selected color for other tools than highlighting
2024.1.2 2024-09-14
The big fall update with a completely new way of annotating with the Apple Pencil! Launch the document scanner directly from the new Control Center widget. Try the new app icon with a dark look that can automatically switch with Dark Mode or tint the icon and Home Screen widget to match your favorite color.
Annotate like a pro using the new Apple Pencil Pro. Squeeze your Apple Pencil Pro to bring up a floating tool palette right where your pencil tip is. The Apple Pencil Pro provides haptic feedback when the gesture is recognized and the new hover preview lets you see the selected color and tool before your tip touches the screen.
These new Apple Pencil features require an iPad running iPadOS 17.5 or newer. Hover preview works with any Apple Pencil except the 1st generation. The floating tool palette requires an Apple Pencil Pro or the Apple Pencil 2nd generation (with the Double-tap gesture in Highlights set to Tool Palette in Settings > Apple Pencil).
Minor improvement:
- Fixed an issue with widgets disappearing on iOS and iPadOS 17
2024.1.1 2024-09-12
The big fall update with a completely new way of annotating with the Apple Pencil! Launch the document scanner directly from the new Control Center widget. Try the new app icon with a dark look that can automatically switch with Dark Mode or tint the icon and Home Screen widget to match your favorite color.
Annotate like a pro using the new Apple Pencil Pro. Squeeze your Apple Pencil Pro to bring up a floating tool palette right where your pencil tip is. The Apple Pencil Pro provides haptic feedback when the gesture is recognized and the new hover preview lets you see the selected color and tool before your tip touches the screen.
These new Apple Pencil features require an iPad running iPadOS 17.5 or newer. Hover preview works with any Apple Pencil except the 1st generation. The floating tool palette requires an Apple Pencil Pro or the Apple Pencil 2nd generation (with the Double-tap gesture in Highlights set to Tool Palette in Settings > Apple Pencil).
2024.1 2024-09-12
Major speed improvements in celebration of the release of macOS Sonoma:
- Up to 5x faster conversion of image selections to images
- Up to 7x faster text recognition
- Up to 5x faster table recognition
- Up to 5x faster loading of PDF pages
- Faster writing of backup files when running OCR
- Faster opening of files
Minor improvements:
- Double tap to zoom now also works for pointing devices
- Fewer ways to accidentally toggle the visibility of the top and bottom bars
- Fixed a crash related to updating thumbnails
- Improved thread safety
- Fixed an issue with text selections sometimes appearing without a highlight color when using the Apple Pencil
- Thumbnails view now reflect changes to the document live
- Use Enter key as a keyboard shortcut to go to the next result when searching
- Switching between viewing your notes and PDF no longer resets the zoom level
- Improved animation for note deletions
- Fixed a crash related to generating thumbnails for a small subset of PDF pages
- Fixed a crash related to tracking of user setting updates
- Remove null characters if present in the text of markup annotations
- Improved jumping between search results on devices running iOS 15 or earlier
- Improved Smart Copy when getting text of markup annotations
- Improved handling of highlights:// links
2023.3.3 2023-11-09
Major speed improvements in celebration of the release of macOS Sonoma:
- Up to 5x faster conversion of image selections to images
- Up to 7x faster text recognition
- Up to 5x faster table recognition
- Up to 5x faster loading of PDF pages
- Faster writing of backup files when running OCR
- Faster opening of files
Minor improvements:
- Fixed a crash related to updating thumbnails
- Improved thread safety
- Fixed an issue with text selections sometimes appearing without a highlight color when using the Apple Pencil
- Thumbnails view now reflect changes to the document live
- Use Enter key as a keyboard shortcut to go to the next result when searching
- Switching between viewing your notes and PDF no longer resets the zoom level
- Improved animation for note deletions
- Fixed a crash related to generating thumbnails for a small subset of PDF pages
- Fixed a crash related to tracking of user setting updates
- Remove null characters if present in the text of markup annotations
- Improved jumping between search results on devices running iOS 15 or earlier
- Improved Smart Copy when getting text of markup annotations
- Improved handling of highlights:// links
2023.3.2 2023-11-03
Major speed improvements in celebration of the release of macOS Sonoma:
- Up to 5x faster conversion of image selections to images
- Up to 7x faster text recognition
- Up to 5x faster table recognition
- Up to 5x faster loading of PDF pages
- Faster writing of backup files when running OCR
- Faster opening of files
Minor improvements:
- Fixed an issue with text selections sometimes appearing without a highlight color when using the Apple Pencil
- Thumbnails view now reflect changes to the document live
- Use Enter key as a keyboard shortcut to go to the next result when searching
- Switching between viewing your notes and PDF no longer resets the zoom level
- Improved animation for note deletions
- Fixed a crash related to generating thumbnails for a small subset of PDF pages
- Fixed a crash related to tracking of user setting updates
- Remove null characters if present in the text of markup annotations
- Improved jumping between search results on devices running iOS 15 or earlier
- Improved Smart Copy when getting text of markup annotations
- Improved handling of highlights:// links
2023.3.1 2023-10-17
Major speed improvements in celebration of the release of macOS Sonoma:
- Up to 5x faster conversion of image selections to images
- Up to 7x faster text recognition
- Up to 5x faster table recognition
- Up to 5x faster loading of PDF pages
- Faster writing of backup files when running OCR
- Faster opening of files
Minor improvements:
- Thumbnails view now reflect changes to the document live
- Use Enter key as a keyboard shortcut to go to the next result when searching
- Switching between viewing your notes and PDF no longer resets the zoom level
- Improved animation for note deletions
- Fixed a crash related to generating thumbnails for a small subset of PDF pages
- Fixed a crash related to tracking of user setting updates
- Remove null characters if present in the text of markup annotations
- Improved jumping between search results on devices running iOS 15 or earlier
- Improved Smart Copy when getting text of markup annotations
- Improved handling of highlights:// links
2023.3 2023-10-11
The big iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 update with support for widgets and shortcuts everywhere! Scan documents faster by launching directly into document scanner from widgets on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and even StandBy. You can also run the Scan & OCR Document shortcut from the Shortcuts app, through Spotlight search or by longpressing the Highlights app icon. Actions in the Shortcuts app can also be added to the Home Screen by longpressing them. If that's not enough, you can also ask Siri to "Scan using Highlights", "Open Highlights scanner" or similar phrases.
Lock Screen widgets blend seamlessly with your wallpaper and is the fastest way to scan documents on the go. On the iPad, they can be configured to appear on the left side in landscape mode or under the time in portrait mode similar to the iPhone. On the Home Screen and in Spotlight search results the action will match the orange accent color of Highlights.
The document scanner will automatically perform OCR to make the PDFs searchable after scanning. The OCR is done on device. To disable OCR turn off "OCR After Scan" in Advanced Settings inside Highlights.
2023.2 2023-09-14
The iOS and iPadOS 27 release with support for Siri AI. You can ask it to do simple actions:
- "Scan using Highlights"
- "Open Highlights"
Or perform fuzzy searches:
- "Find the PDF where they discuss 3D paper based microfluidics"
- "Search for PDF articles from the journal PNAS"
Or make requests based on the document you have open:
- "Mail this to ..."
- "Does this article have any supplementary information?"
- "Do the authors have a website?"
- "Have they published anything together recently?"
You can both talk and type to Siri AI. You do not need to choose your words as carefully as previously and it is much better at understanding context. Siri AI requires iOS and iPadOS 27 and a compatible device.
This release also brings:
- A refined Liquid Glass design with updated app icons
- Annotations with comments now render with a text bubble icon next to them in the PDF to let you know which have comments at a glance
- New languages for OCR and text recognition in image selections: Finnish, Hindi and Marathi
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