Available in version 3.3 or later.

You can add / edit annotations in PDF files.

Highlight text with a

Most common annotation is highlighting of text: select text and press a. This creates a highlight annotation in yellow color:

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Here I highlighted word USAGE and pressed a.

Saving annotations back to PDF file

Notice in toolbar (upper right) we show: You have unsaved annotations.

When you close the document (or exit the app) and have unsaved annotations, SumatraPDF will ask if you want to save them:

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If you close the dialog or choose Discard, annotations will be lost.

Save changes to existing PDF will over-write the PDF with newly added annotations.

Save changes to a new PDF will allow you to save as a new file.

Open annotation editor

If you press A (upper case i.e. Shift-a) we will create a highlight annotation (same as lower case a) but also open annotation editor window.

Another way to open annotation editor is to use context menu (right mouse click or Shift-F10) and use Edit Annotations:

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Other annotations for selected text