Remove Annotations
Strip comments, highlights, drawings, stamps and other markups from a PDF.
About this tool
Remove Annotations cleans up reviewed documents before you share them. Tick the kinds of markup to delete: sticky-note comments, highlights and underlines, freehand ink, text boxes, stamps, shapes, pop-ups — and optionally links, attachments and form fields.
Limit the clean-up to a page range if needed. The report shows how many annotations of each type were removed.
Only the annotation layer is changed; the page content itself is untouched. Processing runs entirely in your browser.
Engines: pdf-lib
How to use
- 1
Open your PDF.
- 2
Tick the annotation types to remove.
- 3
Click “Remove annotations” and download.
Use cases
Share a clean final
Remove internal review comments before sending a contract to a client.
Reset a marked-up handout
Delete old highlights and drawings to reuse a document.
Reduce clutter
Remove broken links or leftover form fields.
Frequently asked questions
Will my text be deleted?
No, only annotations (the markup layer) are removed.
What happens if I remove form fields?
Fillable fields disappear. To keep their values as printed text, use Flatten PDF instead.
Can I keep links?
Yes — links are not removed unless you tick them.
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