Flatten PDF – Make Fillable Forms Non-Editable Free
Flatten fillable PDF forms and annotations into permanent read-only content. Print-and-scan in one step. Free online.
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Private and short-lived: every upload is erased automatically 72 hours after you last open it.
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Flatten a PDF: step by step
Flatten fillable PDF forms and annotations into permanent read-only content. Print-and-scan in one step. Free online.
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Upload your PDF
Drop in the fillable form or annotated document you want to lock down. The screen takes it from there — no settings are needed before the file is in. Files are deleted after 2 hours.
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Choose what to flatten
Flatten everything renders every page to a picture — form fields, annotations and text all become part of the image; it is print & scan in one step. Flatten only form fields bakes the widgets — our filled form's “Dana Tester” came back as plain text — while text, images and annotations stay as they are. Behind More options sit the image-resolution steps.
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Flatten & download
Press Flatten PDF and the rebuilt file lands on the ready page — page count kept, Download right there. In our one-page membership form the fields came out uneditable either way: baked into the content in one mode, one flat image in the other.
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Fields become content
Only form fields bakes the widgets — filled values included — so the file stops being fillable.
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Rasterise everything
Flatten everything turns each page into a picture — fields, annotations and text in one image.
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Print & scan shortcut
The everything mode is the modern photocopier — a flat, uneditable copy in one run.
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Resolution on tap
75, 100, 150 or 220 dpi behind More options — 150 is the balanced default.
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Page count kept
One page in, one page out — the document's structure is preserved.
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Private by default
No account, no watermark — and every file is automatically deleted after 2 hours.
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