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Remove Annotations
Strip comments, highlights, drawings, stamps, links or form fields, by type and page.
Free, no uploads, no sign-up. Runs 100% in your browser.
How Remove Annotations works
pdf-lib reads each page's annotation list, groups them by type and keeps only the ones you want. Page content is not touched.
Input: PDF. Output: PDF.
How to use Remove Annotations
- Drop your PDF onto the Remove Annotations area, or click to choose it.
- Wait a moment while page thumbnails render locally.
- Choose the pages and options you need. Previews update as you go.
- Press the main action button and download the finished PDF.
Tips
- Encrypted PDFs must be unlocked first with Unlock PDF.
- Large scanned PDFs are mostly images. Compress PDF shrinks them the most.
- Your original file is never modified; you always download a new copy.
Remove Annotations FAQ
- Are my files uploaded?
- No. This tool runs entirely in your browser tab. Files are read from your disk into memory and the result is generated locally.
- Is it free? Are there limits or watermarks?
- Free and open source (MIT). There are no file-size caps, daily quotas, accounts or watermarks.
- Does it work offline?
- Yes, once the page (and any engine it needs) has loaded, it keeps working without a connection thanks to the service worker cache.
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