Search and Highlight Text in PDF on Linux For Free

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Evince (or Document Viewer), the default pdf viewer as of Ubuntu 18.04 also supports highlighting and annotations. To show the annotations menu bar, you must click on the red circle (see below). The annotation options appear and you can annotate or highlight as seen in the blue circle in the image below.

Once you have PDFedit installed on your Linux system, follow these steps to edit your PDF files: Step 1: Launch PDFedit. Open a terminal and type the following command to start the PDFedit application: pdfedit. ... Step 2: Open the PDF File. ... Step 3: Select the Editing Mode. ... Step 4: Save the Edited PDF.

Simply upload the document onto your Google Drive and then select the file and right-click and select Open with > Google Docs. The file will be opened as an editable Google Docs text document. Then just make your edits and when you're finished click File > Download > PDF Document to revert it back to a PDF file.

How to Highlight Text in PDF Open your PDF with the PDF Annotator tool. Select the Highlight option in the toolbar. Customize the highlight color and opacity. Add highlights over the desired PDF text. Download your file when you're done.

Okular is a very popular pdf editor for Linux. It is a pdf reader and annotator developed by the KDE community. It is a free and open source available in Linux and Microsoft stores. It is very user-friendly.

Click somewhere in the document, then press Ctrl + A (Windows) or ? Command + A (Mac) to select all text in the document. Copy the text. Once the text is selected, you can copy it by pressing Ctrl + C (Windows) or ? Command + C (Mac).