Remove Annotations
Runs in your browserUse this page to remove annotations from PDF files, and choose highlights, notes or drawings rather than deleting every mark.
Drop PDFs here or choose files
Files stay on this device. Nothing is uploaded.
How to use Remove Annotations
1
Choose one PDF
The page shows what it found, such as 12 highlights and 3 comments.
2
Tick what to remove: comments and notes, highlights and underlines, drawings and shapes, links, or form fields
Links and form fields are off unless you tick them.
3
Remove from every page, or type a page range such as 1-3, 5
4
Click Remove annotations and download
The result is named after the original with -clean added.
Only the markup on top of the page is removed. The page's own text, pictures and layout stay exactly as they were.
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