Remove PDF Annotations
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Upload a reviewed PDF and get it back without the comments, highlights and notes.
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A draft that went through review carries the review with it: sticky notes, highlights, a colleague's blunt margin comment. Those are working notes, and they are visible to anyone who opens the file in a reader that displays annotations.
Stripping them produces the document without the conversation around it. It is the step that belongs between the last round of review and sending the file to a client, a regulator or a printer.
Annotations sit in a separate layer from the page. Removing that layer leaves text, images and layout exactly as they were, which is why the result looks identical minus the marks. A highlight drawn into the page as artwork rather than added as an annotation is part of the content and stays.
Comments, sticky notes, highlights, underlines, strike-through marks, freehand drawings, stamps and form field widgets. They live in a layer above the page rather than in the page content.
No. Annotations are stored separately from the page, so removing them leaves text, images and layout exactly as they were.
The tool reports how many annotations it removed. A document with none comes back unchanged and says zero, so you can tell the two cases apart.
No. A mark that is part of the page artwork rather than an annotation is page content, and this tool does not alter content. Only the annotation layer is removed.
Not directly. Remove the password with the Unlock PDF tool first, then clean the unprotected copy.