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
- Upload your PDF file.
- The tool detects the document's page count and displays file information.
- Click Remove Annotations to process.
- 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.