Exporting annotations?

DEVONthink
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I’m wondering if anyone has a preferred way to export annotations from PDF documents in DT3? I do a lot of highlighting in PDFs in the morning DTTG and looking on a simple way to just pull those highlights out into a note. I know i can simply select the annotations and copy them, but they are formatted in a manner that doesn’t make getting the content out easy without further formatting. For instance

1 Highlight (my name) 2/17/25, 2:44:19 AM

I would love to be able to simply export or copy the text without my name, date time, and this odd set of spacing.

Suggestions?

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Tools > Summarize Annotations.

Also, if you’re using Markdown for the Summary documents, you can blockquote the annotation instead of showing the style, e.g., highlighting…

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In addition to DT‘s “Summarize Annotations” command, you could also try Ryan J.A. Murphy‘s “Stream annotations” script (forum discussion). Or, if you prefer individual notes per annotation, have a look at my “Script to create individual Markdown notes from PDF annotations”.

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thank you for these leads!

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thank you for this i appreciate it.