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Strip comments, highlights, links and other page annotations.

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About this Remove PDF Annotations workflow

What it does

Remove PDF page annotations before sharing a document, including comments, highlights, links, and widget annotations. Processing stays in your browser.

Processing model

This focused tool processes the selected document in your browser. The source file is not overwritten.

Good practice

Keep the original file and inspect the downloaded result before replacing an archival, signed, submitted or legally important copy.

How Remove PDF Annotations works in FileCarpenter

Remove PDF page annotations before sharing a document, including comments, highlights, links, and widget annotations. Processing stays in your browser.

The focused PDF Tools workspace is designed for a single job at a time. It does not require an account and does not add a FileCarpenter watermark to the downloaded result.

Good to know

Does this remove visible page text?

No. It removes annotation objects attached to pages, not ordinary text or graphics.

Will form widgets be removed?

Widget annotations are removed as well; flatten a form first if you need its filled appearance preserved.