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I am currently using Ubuntu 15.10. I need to highlight some sentences and/or paragraphs for easy searching but I can't find any option for this in the "Document Viewer" which is the default application for pdf files.

RD017
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  • document viewer not supporting highlighting install another application such as foxit reader – Mohamed Slama Jun 27 '16 at 06:14
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    I use okular for that. – Andrea Borga Jun 27 '16 at 06:16
  • Possible duplicate of [Which PDF Viewer would you recommend?](http://askubuntu.com/questions/18495/which-pdf-viewer-would-you-recommend) – Mohamed Slama Jun 27 '16 at 06:17
  • Then what is the best and lightweight application for this? – RD017 Jun 27 '16 at 06:17
  • i prefer foxit it's simple to use and if you install on windows mac or any mobile keep the highlighting and attachments – Mohamed Slama Jun 27 '16 at 06:19
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    how can I install foxit? – RD017 Jun 27 '16 at 06:23
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    Possible duplicate of [How can I highlight or annotate PDFs?](http://askubuntu.com/questions/1529/how-can-i-highlight-or-annotate-pdfs) – muru Jun 27 '16 at 10:40
  • Re "Possible duplicate" reports - The landscape of programs might've changed a lot in the intervening 6 years since those threads, or I hope it has... so I think it's valid to reevaluate the question. – underscore_d Jun 27 '16 at 10:51
  • @underscore_d offer a bounty on it. It's a standard bounty reason: "The current answer(s) are out-of-date and require revision …" – muru Jun 27 '16 at 10:53
  • @muru Fair point, I didn't know about that, and using that to update an existing question would be tidier than having a new one every N years :-) – underscore_d Jun 27 '16 at 10:54
  • @underscore_d I updated my "Document Viewer" answer to [How can I highlight or annotate PDFs?](http://askubuntu.com/questions/1529/how-can-i-highlight-or-annotate-pdfs) 6 weeks ago. – karel Mar 15 '17 at 04:49
  • `Ctrl + H`: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/437335/evince-keyboard-shortcut-to-highlight-text – wolfram77 Sep 08 '20 at 07:40

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Document Viewer DOES actually support annotations and highlightings in PDF files (not in other formats). Just click on that notebook like button and you'll be able to annotate and highlight text.

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Try Mendeley (https://www.mendeley.com/)! It does the work like a charm!

In fact, Mendeley is more than a PDF-reader. You can use it to organize your docs and references.

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Document Viewer doesn't support highlighting install another application such as FoxIt Reader. I prefer foxit because it's simple to use and if you install on Windows, Mac or mobile keep the highlighting and attachments.

To install foxit reader :

  1. Open Foxit website.
  2. Click "Free download" and it will detect operating system then click "Download". enter image description here
  3. Extract the file you downloaded.
  4. Double click the .run file and install.enter image description here
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Mohamed Slama
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You Can also use the WPS it's great tool for pdf reader and supports highlighting function in pdf files. https://www.wps.com/linux

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In the default document viewer that comes with Ubuntu, you can use ctrl+H to highlight the text.

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