Review the clinical handbook sections on trauma-focused CBT and annotate parts relevant to our clinic's new practice, …
Open your PDF file in Adobe Acrobat.
Click the Comment button in the toolbar to display the commenting tools.
Select the annotation tool you want to use, such as Note, Highlight, Text Box, or Draw.
Click on the PDF page where you want to add your comment or annotation.
Type your comment or draw your annotation as needed.
Click away from the annotation or press Escape to save your comment or annotation.
You can use multiple annotation types in one session, such as highlighting text and adding sticky notes for detailed feedback.
This runs in the Acrobat app - there is no separate API for this task.
Highlighting text in Acrobat draws attention to specific words or sentences, making them stand out with a colored background. It's good for quick visual emphasis. A text box comment, however, lets you write longer, more detailed feedback in a separate box that can be placed anywhere on the page. Use highlighting for simple emphasis and text boxes for explanations or questions.
Sanitizing a PDF after adding comments is very important to protect privacy and prevent information leaks. Comments and annotations are stored as separate layers of data. If you share a document without sanitizing it, your review notes, which might contain sensitive information or internal discussions, could still be visible to others. Sanitizing removes these hidden layers, ensuring only the final, clean document is shared, preventing unintended disclosure of your review process.
Yes, even if your Clinical Handbook is a scanned document, you can still use drawing markup tools in Adobe Acrobat. These tools, like circles or arrows, work by drawing directly on the page image, not on the text itself. This means you can point out areas or make notes visually, even if the text is not selectable.