The only tool I wish they would throw in is the ability to add text to a PDF. But I am still plenty happy with the basic. Not bad at all and you do get a lot of good features for that price. If you break that up it comes to 0.66¢ per student. The teacher plan comes with 150 licenses! That’s a lot for $99 a year. When you sign up you are on the Basic plan which is free, but a teacher or you can get Kami for your entire domain. When you click that option it will open a new window where you must upload your PDF to Kami and then you can split or merge multiple PDF files. If a PDF is protected it may not be able to perform this task so keep that in mind. Now take this with a grain of salt people. The most important options that do stand out to me is the ability to split and merge PDF documents. I won’t go into all of them because I honestly didn’t have that much time trying it out but check out all those options!

Just click this little icon and bam! Thumbnails. Kami even has thumbnail view! Oh man this is so nice. It is nice to know that if a school does not use G Suite they have do have options to easily This isn’t a real feature that I or my school would use too often since we would be handling all the sharing through Google Drive. There is a sharing feature but you have to upload it to Kami’s servers first. You can show an original and then show the concept or the marked up version. If you want an original you have to go download it again from its original source. A lot of services and programs have it that when up a PDF that is it. I really, really like that you can download an unmarked up copy. Check out the image below to see what you can do. I was very happy to find that rather than just download it gives you some options. There are times that you need to export (download) it to your computer. Now there are times when saving just isn’t enough. As you can see you are also able to save it directly to Google Drive which works pretty well. I believe it automatically saves all changes in Kami’s own servers. Now if you want to save the PDF (which if you want your annotations to stick) you have quite a few choices. Using Kami is pretty intuitive and straight forward. I’ve taken a quick screenshot of all the tools expanded. Heck you can even use text to speech (though that is a paid feature). This thing will let you highlight, strike through, leave a comment and a textbox, shape and a few more neat little tools. The big scene steeler is the toolbar on the far left hand side. Here is what it looks like.Īs you can see there is a lot more going on.

Kami should automatically open it up in your browser. Now Find a PDF file online and click the link to open it. Since it uses the Google API signing through Google makes it very easy. You may need to sign in or create account. Installation is as easy as any other browser extension.

This is very good so if you are not a Chrome user you can still take advantage of all that Kami has to offer. It will work with Chrome (of course), Firefox, Edge and Safari. Now Kami the good news here is that Kami does work with other browsers. So off to searching I went and have found Kami. Then I think No! This is 2018 and there should be a way to do this within my browser of choice. I get it, Chrome is making it a service and I can download it to my computer and open it up with Preview and do all that good stuff. Also there are no thumbnails to quickly navigate or quickly scan what is going on in that document. The image is not quite large enough for me to easily read and there is no way to highlight, add text, you know mark it up. Check out the picture below to see what I mean. Now Chrome can view PDF’s and I have never really like the way they handle it. Here is another extension that I like a lot in Chrome.

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