Russell Adams <rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com> writes: > Given the emacs and Org oriented nature of this group, I'd like to > know if anyone has found a good Orgish (ie: portable, text, etc) to > annotate PDFs? > > Features would be items like highlighting blocks, adding notes > (margins or "sticky" notes), and saving to either a sidecar file in a > text format (ala Org) or directly appending the PDF.
I realise this doesn't answer your question exactly, but I use xournal for adding highlights and notes to pdfs on linux. It does save the notes in a "sidecar file", but its not a text file. There's an option to save a new pdf with the annotations included.