Remove annotations on your computer

Comments, notes, highlights, links and form fields removed from every page in one click; the text and images of the page stay intact. Free and unlimited one file at a time, no uploads.

100% private: everything runs on your computer, your files never leave your device.

  1. Upload your PDF - it opens locally on your computer
  2. Annotations, links and form fields are stripped automatically
  3. Download the clean PDF

What Remove annotations does

Remove annotations strips every annotation from every page of a PDF in a single pass: sticky notes and their pop-ups, highlights, underlines and strike-throughs, freehand ink, shapes, stamps, free text boxes, links and the widgets of form fields. What is printed on the page, text, images and vector graphics, is left exactly as it was. The document is processed in your browser and never uploaded.

It solves a common problem: a reviewed draft full of comments that has to go out clean, a marked-up contract you want to circulate without the negotiation history, a study PDF covered in highlights, or a form whose fields should disappear entirely. There are no settings and nothing to select; the tool does one job, immediately.

How to remove annotations from a PDF

  1. Add the PDF. With a single file the cleanup starts as soon as it is loaded; there is no options screen.
  2. Wait a moment while the tool goes through the pages. Progress is shown as Removing annotations and advances page by page.
  3. Download the clean PDF. It carries the suffix _no_annotations and a timestamp, and the original on your disk is untouched.
  4. To clean several PDFs at once, add them all before starting. You get one clean PDF per input inside a ZIP, together with a manifest that records how many annotations were removed from each file. Batch runs are part of the 7-Day Pass and the Pro plan.

What is removed and what is kept

In a PDF every comment, highlight, link or form field is an annotation attached to its page, separate from the page content. The tool deletes the whole annotation list of each page and the document's form definition, then saves the file. Because nothing is rendered or re-encoded, the page content is preserved as vector data.

Privacy: the cleanup happens on your computer

The PDF is read and rewritten by a PDF library running inside your browser tab. The file is never uploaded, no page is sent anywhere for analysis and no third-party script is loaded. The only download is OléPDF's own code from its own domain. When you close the tab, the only copies of the document are the ones on your disk.

That is what makes it suitable for the kind of documents that usually carry comments: contract drafts, legal reviews, medical reports or internal assessments.

Typical uses

Frequently asked questions

Is removing annotations free?

Yes. Cleaning one PDF at a time is free and unlimited, with no account, no watermark and no daily cap. Processing several PDFs in a single run requires the 7-Day Pass or Pro.

Does it delete the text of the page too?

No. Only annotations are removed. Text, images and drawings that are part of the page stay exactly as they were, and the text remains selectable.

Will the form fields disappear?

Yes. Form fields are annotations, so they are removed along with anything typed into them. If you need the answers to remain visible, flatten the form with Flatten PDF instead of removing the annotations.

What happens to a digitally signed PDF?

The signature widget is removed and the file is rewritten, so the signature is lost. Keep the signed original and clean a copy if you need both.

Can I choose which annotations to keep?

No. The tool removes all of them. For a selective cleanup, use Edit PDF and delete the specific comments or objects.

Does the file get smaller?

Usually a little, because the annotation objects are gone. Attached files placed as annotations are also dropped. For real size savings use Compress PDF.

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