Just need a simple PDF tool on Windows to hightlight text and add notes, like the Preview program on

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Published on 2010-06-07T03:25:15Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 3:32 UTC
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Since 2007, I had a Macbook and it has a program called Preview that can highlight and add notes to a PDF file. So for this 3 years, I tried to find a similar program on Windows and it looks like the best is still Adobe Acrobat, about 200MB, 300MB in size, good for 30 days, and if purchased, for about $400.

Is there a simple tool on Windows that can let us highlight text (and possibly add notes / annotation)? Just highlighting is good enough and it doesn't look like a very complication operation. thanks.

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