Remove Annotations from a PDF
Strip comments, highlights, notes and markup from a PDF — free, in your browser.
Remove Annotations strips comments, highlights, stamps and other annotation objects from a PDF, leaving the page content as authored. Use Flatten PDF instead if the markup should stay visible but become uneditable.
Remove Annotations strips comments, highlights, sticky notes, links, and other markup objects out of a PDF in your browser — free, no upload. It removes form fields too. Markup drawn into the page content itself cannot be removed, and the tool says so instead of pretending. Remove Annotations is one of UnboundPDF's 53 free browser-based PDF and image tools: it runs on your own device with no upload, no account and no watermark, and reports what it measured on the output.
How to remove annotations — steps & common uses
What people use Remove Annotations for
People cleaning up a marked-up PDF — stripping comments, highlights, and sticky notes before sharing a final copy.
- Strip review comments
- Remove highlights and notes
- Clear sticky notes before sending
- Deliver a clean final copy
- Drop leftover markup
How to remove annotations
- Add your PDF; it is scanned on your device and never uploaded.
- See the count of annotations the tool found, such as comments, links, highlights, and form widgets.
- Click Remove annotations to strip those objects out.
- Preview and download the cleaned PDF.
Questions about Remove Annotations 8
Are my files uploaded to a server?
No. UnboundPDF processes PDFs locally in the browser — documents are not uploaded to a server. We have no backend that receives, stores, or scans your files.
What counts as an annotation?
Comments, sticky notes, highlights, links, and form-field widgets are all annotation objects, and they are removed together.
Does it change the actual page text or images?
No. Only the markup layer is removed; the page's original text and graphics stay intact.
What exactly gets removed?
Annotations such as comments, highlights, sticky notes and markup, plus interactive form fields — leaving the underlying page content.
Does it change the page text or images?
No. The page content stays exactly as it is; only the added annotations are removed.
Will it remove form fields too?
Yes. To keep a form's answers while removing the fields, flatten it with Flatten PDF instead.
Can I remove sticky notes and comments from a PDF for free?
Yes — Remove Annotations strips comments, sticky notes, highlights, links and other markup objects out of a PDF in your browser, free, with no account. It removes form fields too. Markup drawn directly into the page content itself (not as a separate annotation object) can't be removed this way, and the tool says so instead of pretending.
Can this tool list or extract my annotations instead of deleting them?
No — Remove Annotations only strips markup out; it doesn't export a list of comments. If you want to read through a document's comments before deciding, open it in a PDF reader with a comments/annotations panel first.
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How your files are handled
The work runs on your own device, inside the browser tab — so there is no server to send your document to.
- Nothing is uploaded. We have no backend that receives or stores documents, so we cannot see your files during processing or after.
- Your device does the work. Large documents are handled in stages, pages are rendered as you reach them, and each job is checked against your device before it starts — so a long run takes longer on a phone than on a laptop, nothing is queued behind other people's jobs, and you can stop a run at any point without touching your original file.
- No account and no watermark. The output is a clean file you can use anywhere, with no sign-up and no hourly cap.
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