Preview.app: How can I quickly find all highlights with specific colour in PDF?

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  •  20-04-2021
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Question

I have a couple of PDFs (some of which are 500+ pages long). In these PDFs I made a lot of highlights, when I read through them. I came up with a colouring system, such that each colour is associated with a particular theme. Now I would like to focus on one theme/colour. I.e. quickly jump through, say the Pink highlights. However Preview.app, in its 'Highlights & Notes' panel, only shows colour for notes. I am not able to see which colour I used on the highlights.

Can I somehow get an overview of the highlights and their highlight colour? Perhaps in a different program (Skim)?

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Solution

I just found this link where someone used Skim and additional AppleScripts to do exactly what you are looking for, I think.

Update: As the above link is currently inactive, the page can also be reached on blogspot and web.archive.org.

OTHER TIPS

click on the dropdwon in the top left corner. find highlights nd notes

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