Managing highlighted comments

[GZ99]

Like most people, I am working on several pdf files, most of them hundreds of pages long, and I highlight text in them, text which I now want to have concentrated in one file -only the highlighted text from the entirety of each pdf, nothing else.

Preferably, I want that collection of comments to be in .doc form. However, the only way that has so far consistently worked toward that is me individually copying each bit of highlighted text onto a word document.

Is there a way to copy all the highlighted text as simple text and paste it onto a word file all at once?

At this point, acrobat doesn't even show the highlighted text in the respective comments panel, it only says "highlighted text," which helps navigating to each page where individual comments are, but is otherwise pedestrian, at best. Please help if you have a solution!

Acrobat versions used:

Reader: 2023.008.20470

Pro: 2023.008.20533

[try67]

In order to do that the selected text must be a part of the comment, which is not possible to do in Reader automatically, but it can be done using a script, like this (paid-for) tool I've developed exactly for this task:

https://www.try67.com/tool/acrobat-retroactively-copy-highlighted-text-into-comments

[Document Geek]

In order for the highlighted tex to show in the comments pane, you'd need to have first checked the last checkbox in the commenting preferences.

As far as extracting the comments into a separate document, Acrobat cannot do this on its own with the paid script mentioned below. Hoever, BlueBeam Revu can. It lets you simply export the comments as a CSV file.