How to Remove Annotations from a PDF
1. Upload Your PDF
Select the PDF file with comments and annotations.
2. Select What to Remove
Choose to remove all annotations or specific types.
3. Process the PDF
Click the button to strip all selected annotations.
4. Download Your Clean PDF
Your clean, annotation-free document is ready instantly.
Key Features
- Comprehensive Removal: Strip out all types of annotations, including comments, highlights, underlines, and drawings.
- Selective Cleaning: (Coming Soon) Choose to remove only certain types of annotations, like links or form fields, while keeping others.
- Create a Clean Copy: Quickly generate a final, "clean" version of a document after a collaborative review process.
- One-Click Operation: Simple, fast, and efficient. Remove all annotations with a single click.
- Secure & Private: Your files are processed locally in your browser and are never uploaded to a server.
Use Cases
Remove all internal comments, notes, and highlights from a report or proposal before sending it to a client.
Clean up legal documents by removing privileged attorney-client comments before submitting them to the court.
Ensure no unwanted comment boxes or highlights appear on the final printed version of your document.
Tips & Best Practices
Keep a Backup
Removing annotations is permanent. Always keep a copy of the original PDF with the annotations in case you need to refer back to the comments.
Consider Flattening Instead
If you want the annotations to be visible but not editable, use our "Flatten PDF" tool instead. This merges the annotations into the page content permanently.
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