Remove Annotations from PDF — Clean Up Comments, Highlights & Markup
Upload your PDF and remove all annotations — comments, highlights, stamps, and markup — with one click. Optionally keep link annotations. All processing in your browser.
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PDF Annotation Remover
Clean up your PDFs by removing markup
Remove All Types
Removes comments, highlights, underlines, strikethroughs, stamps, sticky notes, and freehand drawings.
Keep Links Option
Optionally preserve hyperlink annotations while removing all other markup.
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All processing runs in your browser. Your PDF is never uploaded to any server.
FAQ
All types: text comments, highlights, underlines, strikethroughs, sticky notes, stamps, freehand drawings, and other markup. You can optionally keep hyperlink annotations.
Yes — toggle the 'Keep links' option to preserve clickable hyperlink annotations while removing all other markup.
Yes — once removed and downloaded, the annotations cannot be recovered. Keep your original PDF as a backup.
No — only the annotation layer is affected. Your text, images, and layout remain unchanged.
After uploading, the tool scans your PDF and displays the total number of annotations found before you confirm removal.
Currently the tool removes annotations from all pages. For selective removal, consider using a PDF editor.
Yes — flattening bakes annotations into the page content (they become visible but non-editable). Removing annotations deletes them entirely.
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Free PDF annotation remover — instant, private.