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Remove Annotations from PDF – Delete Comments Free

Batch remove highlights, strikeouts, comments and other annotations from a PDF. Free online tool, no watermark.

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Private and short-lived: every upload is erased automatically 72 hours after you last open it.

Step by step

Remove Annotations: step by step

Batch remove highlights, strikeouts, comments and other annotations from a PDF. Free online tool, no watermark.

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    Upload your PDF

    Drop in a document and its marks show up on the sheet — highlights, strikeouts, sticky notes, shapes, free text and stamps, just as a reader would see them. Files are deleted after 2 hours.

    An annotated page in the preview: a yellow highlight, a red strikeout, a note icon, a red square, free text and an APPROVED stamp
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    Pick the types

    All thirteen types are ticked to start: Highlight, Strikeout, Underline, Ink / Draw, Polygon, Square, Circle, Line / Arrow, Polyline, Link, Text, Free text and Popup / Comment. The All box rules them — untick any single type and All unticks itself; click All to sweep them all back on.

    Annotations to remove: the ticked All master above the three columns of thirteen ticked type boxes
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    Name pages and run

    Only from specific pages takes ranges like 1-10,13,14 — a trailing dash opens to the end of the document (12- means page 12 onwards) — or leave it blank for every page. Press Remove annotations and the cleaned file comes back ready to download. Stamps stay put: they're artwork, not annotations.

    Only from specific pages: the box with its Examples placeholder and help bubble, above the Remove annotations button
  • Thirteen types

    Highlights and ink to links, notes and popups — each one a tick of its own.

  • All, in one tick

    The master box arms or disarms every type at once — and follows your single ticks.

  • Pages or everything

    Ranges like 1-10,13,14 — a trailing dash means “to the end.”

  • Links too

    Clickable links are annotations as well — sweep them away with the rest.

  • Stamps stay put

    Stamps are artwork rather than annotations — they survive the sweep untouched.

  • Private by default

    No account, no watermark — and every file is automatically deleted after 2 hours.

More tool information

What the other tools do

Watermark

Stamps a text or image watermark on the pages you name, with the position, font, size, colour, angle and opacity you choose. The tiled option repeats the mark across the page for a do-not-copy background.

Bates Numbering

Applies Bates stamps across one document or a batch of up to 50, with a fixed digit count and separate counters for the file and the page. The sequence continues across files, which is what makes it usable for discovery sets.

Edit Metadata

Edits the document properties a reader sees in their PDF viewer: title, author, subject, keywords, creator, producer, creation and modification dates, plus custom fields.

Header & Footer

Adds one line of text to a header or footer position on every page, with tokens such as [PAGE_ARABIC], [PAGE_ROMAN] and [TOTAL_PAGES] so the same line numbers itself per page.

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