PdfHighlights

PdfHighlights is an intuitive and efficient piece of software which you can rely on for extracting annotations, comments and other marked text from PDF files, enabling you to generate a report which can then be exported to XLSX format.

Clear-cut and accessible user interface

The program goes through a quick setup process, with no particular events, after which it allows you to launch it and get started working with it.
It features a clean and easy to understand visual appearance, so you will not need to waste your time attempting to figure out how to best use it.

Load your PDFs and extract annotated text, saving it to XLS

PdfHighlights enables you to import your documents individually or in bulk, a whole folder in one go. To do this, you can either drag and drop the items onto the main window or you can browse through your system and load them manually.
The application analyzes the contents of your PDFs and automatically determines if they contain any annotations or highlights, generating a report and displaying it in its interface, for you to view.
Optionally, you can export it to an XLSX file, on condition that you have Microsoft Excel installed on your system. This way, you can work with those bits and pieces of information unrestricted, without having to handle large PDFs.
However, PdfHighlights does not allow you to modify the position of the extracted elements, nor can you remove certain annotations, for instance double-entries, from the report. This can only be done in the spreadsheet editor.

A practical PDF annotation extractor

Overall, PdfHighlights proves to be a useful, albeit rather limited utility, which can assist you in grabbing specially marked text from Portable Document Format files, so you can work with it more easily.