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This is useful for preserving signatures or for preventing recipients from deleting or changing your annotations. \n\nWEB MARKUP: Open a web capture tab and find the site you want to mark up. iAnnotate will convert it to a PDF for annotation.\n\nNAVIGATE: Explore your documents by thumbnails, bookmarks, annotations, or search results.\n\nUNLIMITED TABS: Open multiple documents in tabs, and easily navigate between them, on both tablet and phone. \n\nTWO DOCUMENTS: Work on two documents side-by-side, for even greater productivity.\n\nMANAGE: Arrange documents by folders and sort contents by date added, date last opened, or alphabetical order.\n\nCREATE: Create brand new PDFs with blank, lined, or graph-paper pages.\n\nMODIFY: Add, delete, rotate, and rearrange pages in your documents. \n\nSUMMARIZE: Forward a summary of your annotations as an email or a new PDF.\n\nSECURE: Full support for the iOS Data Protection and Keychain functions. \n\nInterested in using iAnnotate in your business or school? 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