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title: Remove Annotations
description: Strip all comments, highlights, links, and other annotations from your PDF in one click.
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# Remove Annotations

Clean your PDF by removing all annotations -- comments, highlights, sticky notes, text markup, links, stamps, and any other annotation objects embedded in the document. The underlying page content (text, images, graphics) remains untouched.

## How It Works

1. Upload your PDF file.
2. The tool detects the document's page count and displays file information.
3. Click **Remove Annotations** to process.
4. The cleaned PDF downloads automatically with all annotations stripped.

## Features

- Removes all annotation types: comments, highlights, underlines, strikethroughs, sticky notes, stamps, links, and form markup
- Operates on every page in the document
- Preserves all non-annotation content (text, images, vector graphics, form fields)
- Displays page count and file size before processing

## Use Cases

- Cleaning up a document before final distribution after a review cycle where multiple reviewers added comments
- Removing highlight markup and sticky notes from a shared study guide
- Stripping link annotations from a document before archiving
- Preparing a "clean" version of a legal document that was heavily annotated during negotiation
- Removing reviewer comments from a manuscript before sending to print

## Tips

- This tool removes annotations at the PDF structure level, so the result maintains selectable text and original quality -- no rasterization involved.
- If you only want to remove specific annotations rather than all of them, use the [PDF Editor](./edit-pdf) to selectively delete individual annotations.
- Annotations in flattened PDFs (where annotations have been merged into the page content) cannot be removed since they are no longer separate objects.

## Related Tools

- [PDF Editor](./edit-pdf)
- [Add Watermark](./add-watermark)
- [Sign PDF](./sign-pdf)