diff --git a/src/main/java/technology/tabula/ObjectExtractor.java b/src/main/java/technology/tabula/ObjectExtractor.java
index 87c2a2f9..bc24768a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/technology/tabula/ObjectExtractor.java
+++ b/src/main/java/technology/tabula/ObjectExtractor.java
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 package technology.tabula;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.List;
 
 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage;
+import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.annotation.PDAnnotation;
 
 public class ObjectExtractor {
 
@@ -13,6 +15,11 @@ public ObjectExtractor(PDDocument pdfDocument) {
         this.pdfDocument = pdfDocument;
     }
 
+    private List<PDAnnotation> getAnnotations(PDPage p) throws IOException {
+        List<PDAnnotation> annotations = p.getAnnotations();
+        return annotations;
+    }
+
     protected Page extractPage(Integer pageNumber) throws IOException {
 
         if (pageNumber > this.pdfDocument.getNumberOfPages() || pageNumber < 1) {
@@ -27,7 +34,6 @@ protected Page extractPage(Integer pageNumber) throws IOException {
 
 
         TextStripper pdfTextStripper = new TextStripper(this.pdfDocument, pageNumber);
-
         pdfTextStripper.process();
 
         Utils.sort(pdfTextStripper.textElements, Rectangle.ILL_DEFINED_ORDER);
@@ -42,8 +48,18 @@ protected Page extractPage(Integer pageNumber) throws IOException {
             h = p.getCropBox().getHeight();
         }
 
-        return new Page(0, 0, w, h, pageRotation, pageNumber, p, pdfTextStripper.textElements,
+        Page page = new Page(0, 0, w, h, pageRotation, pageNumber, p, pdfTextStripper.textElements,
                 se.rulings, pdfTextStripper.minCharWidth, pdfTextStripper.minCharHeight, pdfTextStripper.spatialIndex);
+
+        for (PDAnnotation ann: this.getAnnotations(p)) {
+            System.out.println(ann.getSubtype());
+            System.out.println(ann.getContents());
+            System.out.println(ann.getRectangle());
+            System.out.println(ann.getRectangle().toGeneralPath().createTransformedShape(se.getPageTransform()).getBounds2D());
+            System.out.println();
+        }
+
+        return page;
     }
 
     public PageIterator extract(Iterable<Integer> pages) {
@@ -61,7 +77,4 @@ public Page extract(int pageNumber) {
     public void close() throws IOException {
         this.pdfDocument.close();
     }
-
-
-
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/technology/tabula/ObjectExtractorStreamEngine.java b/src/main/java/technology/tabula/ObjectExtractorStreamEngine.java
index 700d1fe7..25d40cdb 100644
--- a/src/main/java/technology/tabula/ObjectExtractorStreamEngine.java
+++ b/src/main/java/technology/tabula/ObjectExtractorStreamEngine.java
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage;
 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.common.PDRectangle;
 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.graphics.image.PDImage;
+import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.annotation.PDAnnotation;
+import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.annotation.PDAnnotationSquareCircle;
 import org.apache.pdfbox.util.Matrix;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
@@ -24,6 +26,7 @@
 class ObjectExtractorStreamEngine extends PDFGraphicsStreamEngine {
 
     private static final String NBSP = "\u00A0";
+    private final List<PDAnnotation> annotations = new ArrayList<>();
 
     protected List<Ruling> rulings;
     private AffineTransform pageTransform;
@@ -32,9 +35,6 @@ class ObjectExtractorStreamEngine extends PDFGraphicsStreamEngine {
     private Logger log;
     private int clipWindingRule = -1;
     private GeneralPath currentPath = new GeneralPath();
-    public List<Shape> clippingPaths;
-
-    private Matrix translateMatrix;
 
     protected ObjectExtractorStreamEngine(PDPage page) {
         super(page);
@@ -59,6 +59,18 @@ protected ObjectExtractorStreamEngine(PDPage page) {
         }
 
         this.pageTransform.translate(-cb.getLowerLeftX(), -cb.getLowerLeftY());
+
+        // collect annotations
+        try {
+            for (PDAnnotation a: page.getAnnotations()) {
+                if (a.getSubtype().equals("Square")) {
+                    annotations.add(a);
+                }
+            }
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+
+        }
+
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/src/test/java/technology/tabula/TestAnnotationExtraction.java b/src/test/java/technology/tabula/TestAnnotationExtraction.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5f28a65c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/technology/tabula/TestAnnotationExtraction.java
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package technology.tabula;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+public class TestAnnotationExtraction {
+
+    @Test
+    public void testAnnotationsAreDetected() throws IOException {
+        PDDocument pdfDocument = PDDocument.load(new File("src/test/resources/technology/tabula/with_annotations.pdf"));
+        ObjectExtractor oe = new ObjectExtractor(pdfDocument);
+        PageIterator pi = oe.extract();
+
+        Page page = pi.next();
+
+        System.out.println(page);
+
+
+    }
+
+
+}
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diff --git a/src/test/resources/technology/tabula/with_annotations.pdf b/src/test/resources/technology/tabula/with_annotations.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b3dfe2b6
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