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Web app for storing and annotating PDFs


I am extremely frustrated by the lack of a web app that will simply store PDFs and let you annotate them. For example, a simple navigation sidebar and a display to the right would be sufficient. I have tried googling for this to no avail. Are there any recommendations for something like this? As a sidenote, I currently use Dynalist for all of my notes and if there is something similar to this that can store and annotate PDFs, that would be ideal.


  👤 opminion Accepted Answer ✓
Consider converting the PDF to HTML, and then annotate the HTML, http://web.hypothes.is

Three years ago I faced this problem while creating a prototype to annotate research papers, and used a client side library by http://annotateit.org which posted annotations to my own server.

The conversion from HTML to PDF was handled by http://pdftron.com DocPub.