--- title: Using links in the PDF to generate hotspots description: When creating a new publication, Publitas can look for email addresses and web addresses in the copy of the pages and convert these into Link hotspots. 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[Knowledge Base](https://support.publitas.com/?hsLang=en) 2. [Adding Hotspots](https://support.publitas.com/adding-hotspots?hsLang=en) 3. [Hotspot automation](https://support.publitas.com/adding-hotspots?hsLang=en#hotspot-automation) # Using links in the PDF to generate hotspots When creating a new publication, Publitas can look for email addresses and web addresses in the copy of the pages and convert these into Link hotspots. If the PDF contains annotations that also link to a web address or a certain page of the document, these will be converted to Link hotspots and Page-jump hotspots, respectively.     The default hover text will be applied to all detected web addresses and converted to Link hotspots. 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