Findest Universe Documentation
  • Welcome to the Findest Universe 🪐
  • Get started
    • Set up your Universe
    • Building blocks and your library
    • Using the Universe extension to save information
    • Searching the Universe
    • Navigating your Universe
    • Using AI to write your report and extract information
    • Using the reference sidebar to build your report
  • Contributor Workflows & features
    • Save R&D Information & generate a report
    • Build Reports with AI
      • Designing AI-prompts for report generation
      • Tailor your report to your needs
      • AI-assisted information extraction
      • Full text search
    • Share Universe pages
    • Capturing highlights from PDFs and local files
    • Structuring your projects
      • Structuring Research projects
      • Structuring Technology Scouting projects
  • IGOR^AI Advanced features
    • Functional Searching in Science and patents
      • Functional searching
      • Define function & environment
      • Search Strategies
      • Building a search query
      • Manage and find your queries
      • Searching and saving
      • Databases
      • Tips and function FAQ
    • Semantic searching (Q&A)
      • Q&A
      • Semantic Search
      • Query tips for targeted results
    • Technology Search
    • Insert a results overview table
    • Rate results
    • Insert a maturity Radar
  • Technology Scouting Service Features
    • Introduction
    • Navigating through results, scouting projects and your Findest universe
    • How to vote and comment
    • Find all my scouting projects
    • Share results and Add users
    • How to edit a report?
    • Keep on searching in science and patents
    • Saving highlights and external information
    • Write an executive Summary
    • Report Building with AI
      • Designing AI-prompts for report generation
      • Tailor your report to your needs
      • AI-assisted information extraction
    • Need any more help?
  • Misc
    • Creating a password
    • Adding Users
    • Recover deleted studies and entities
    • Pin your page
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  • How to capture highlights and entities on a pdf?
  • How to highlight local PDFs with the plug-in?
  1. Contributor Workflows & features

Capturing highlights from PDFs and local files

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Last updated 6 months ago

How to capture highlights and entities on a pdf?

Your online documents may open as a PDF in your web browser. In such cases, the Universe extension is still available, but to capture highlights and selecting entities from the text , you will need to:

  1. Right-click your mouse/trackpad button

  2. Navigate to Universe by Findest

  3. Select save as Higlight or as Entity.

How to highlight local PDFs with the plug-in?

If you want to enable the plug-in functionality on local PDFs, you have to permit the plug-in to read the PDFs:

  1. In the Chrome search bar, enter chrome://extensions and press Enter.

  2. Scroll the list of extensions until you find Universe by Findest.

  3. Activate the Details button for Universe by Findest.

  4. Select Allow access to file URLs to toggle the option on or off.