Can I extract just the comments I have made in sticky notes into a consolidated file

[melissam74093390]

Hi all

I've marked up a PDF article using sticky notes (and will be doing lots of this in my studies). I want to extract just the text in the sticky notes into a file that is readable by Word. I don't want a summary of my sticky notes, but the actual text, consolidated in a single text-readable file. I don't want to convert the entire PDF to a .docx file. Is there a way to do this? Happy to install a plug-in or use an intermediate desktop or online application. Thanks for your help. (Using Acrobat Pro DC 2015 on Windows 7 Enterprise)

[try67]

You can use the Create Comments Summary command, but the sticky notes will have to include the text you highlighted first.

To do that you can use this script I've developed: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Retroactively Copy Highlighted Text into Comments

[try67]

On second thought, you can't select text when adding a sticky note, so the script above won't work for you. I'm not exactly sure what you mean when you say that you want to include the "actual text"... What text is that?

[melissam74093390]

Thanks for your reply. By 'actual text' I mean the text contained in each separate sticky note. So somehow a process that copies the text contained in each sticky note, consolidates all the text and allows for output as a text file (or if the output is PDF, then I can convert that to .docx using the usual process). Hope this clarifies.

[try67]

Yes, it does. I've developed a tool that allows you to do just that: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat - Create Comments Summary (TXT/PDF)