Remove Annotations

Clean your PDF by removing all annotations -- comments, highlights, sticky notes, text markup, links, stamps, and any other annotation objects embedded in the document. The underlying page content (text, images, graphics) remains untouched.

How It Works

1. Upload your PDF file.
2. The tool detects the document's page count and displays file information.
3. Click Remove Annotations to process.
4. The cleaned PDF downloads automatically with all annotations stripped.

Features

• Removes all annotation types: comments, highlights, underlines, strikethroughs, sticky notes, stamps, links, and form markup
• Operates on every page in the document
• Preserves all non-annotation content (text, images, vector graphics, form fields)
• Displays page count and file size before processing

Use Cases

• Cleaning up a document before final distribution after a review cycle where multiple reviewers added comments
• Removing highlight markup and sticky notes from a shared study guide
• Stripping link annotations from a document before archiving
• Preparing a "clean" version of a legal document that was heavily annotated during negotiation
• Removing reviewer comments from a manuscript before sending to print

Tips

• This tool removes annotations at the PDF structure level, so the result maintains selectable text and original quality -- no rasterization involved.
• If you only want to remove specific annotations rather than all of them, use the PDF Editor to selectively delete individual annotations.
• Annotations in flattened PDFs (where annotations have been merged into the page content) cannot be removed since they are no longer separate objects.

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