Readoku is a cloud‑based platform that extracts highlights, underlines, strikethroughs, and annotation notes from PDF files and exports them to formats such as Word, Excel, CSV, JSON, Text, or PDF. Users can filter results by annotation type, color, or page range, and the service processes files on secure servers, deleting the source PDFs after conversion. The tool streamlines note consolidation for researchers, students, and knowledge workers.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Professionals and academics often need to extract highlighted text, comments, and annotations from PDF documents, a process that typically requires manual copy‑paste or specialized software that lacks flexible export options and can expose sensitive content. This hampers efficient organization, analysis, and sharing of research or study notes.
Solution
Readoku offers a cloud‑based service that automatically parses PDF files to retrieve all highlights, underlines, strikethroughs, and attached notes. Users can upload PDFs, apply filters by annotation type, color, or page range, and export the extracted content to a choice of structured formats—including Word, Excel, CSV, JSON, Text, and PDF—with a single click. The platform performs all processing on secure servers, then deletes the source file immediately after conversion, ensuring data privacy while offloading compute workload from the user’s device. The result is a clean, organized summary ready for research, study, or collaborative sharing without manual re‑typing.
Target Audience
The primary users are researchers, students, and knowledge workers who regularly annotate PDFs and need to consolidate those notes into editable, shareable formats for analysis or reporting.
Features
- Drag‑and‑drop PDF upload with batch processing support for large document sets
- Cloud‑native extraction engine that captures highlights, underlines, strikethroughs, and free‑form comments with associated metadata (color, page number)
- Export options to Word, Excel, CSV, JSON, Text, and PDF, selectable per job or globally via preset profiles
- Advanced filtering controls to include/exclude specific annotation types, colors, or page ranges before export
- One‑click copy‑to‑clipboard for immediate reuse of extracted text
- Automatic, irreversible deletion of source PDFs immediately after conversion to protect confidential information
- Scalable cloud compute infrastructure that prevents local device overload during intensive extraction tasks