Highlighted: Book Highlights for Android

Highlighting seems mandatory for learning until you need to find where that highlighted section is in a book. This app collates book texts for you. You will find it when you need it. Fantastic job to the creator! Thank you!

I needed an app like this for the longest while. I guess I nailed the right search and this app came up. Now I don’t need ebooks to take digital notes. Thanks so much for this invaluable tool.

Highlighted is THE elegant app I always hoped someone would originate—to digitally capture, document and highlight physical books. *** DEC 2020: And now even some eBooks quotes and passages can be sent to Highlighted via a Shortcuts app shortcut—as long as either “copy” (or) the iOS share-sheet can be invoked within an eReader. (Apps like Libby will not work, but Google’s Books app will work.) The release notes in Highlighted contain links to the actual Shortcuts and a video of how it works. Accurate OCR (text recognition) is the principal star of Highlighted, making it incredibly easy to save passages of interest. The entries are then globally searchable and easy to export in a variety of standard ways. The Highlighted OCR seems to generally understand “where” a previously captured part of a passage ended. This means the app can basically append just the continuation of text passages—even if part of the previously captured area is seen in camera. This is not always perfect. But with a steady hand and nice alignment over the text, the OCR is extremely accurate. Artifacts of poorly captured OCR itself are rare. And when aberrations occur it is simple things I’ve seen with almost any OCR capture app. For example a capital “I” can sometimes become a number 1, etc. That being said, Highlighted seems to work best when you capture text passages in succession, like long paragraphs, rather than whole pages at once. And if you capture text where fragments of text (or sentences) are misplaced, a steady hand and a very clean capture window fixes that tendency. Highlighted is a beautifully designed app, making for a fantastic reading companion. It also supports several languages, with more on the way. And built in ISBN scanning makes it incredibly easy to add new books. Yes, there are a few UI quirks, here and there, that need to be ironed out, but nothing that prevents from enjoying the facility of this fantastic app. Updates are frequent, well considered, and reflect a hard working and thoughtful developer, who's really hitting his stride. Super impressed. All I need now is a tip jar. 2022: app is continually amazing. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

Definitely helps to remember and export book highlights to notes apps for revision

Easy to use. Glad to have it.