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Remove Annotations

Delete comments, highlights, drawings, stamps and links from the PDF structure without rasterizing pages.

Select a PDF
or drop files here
Limited by device memory · Files stay on your device
🔒 100% on-device·No signup·Free forever

Remove Annotations online, free and private

Comments, highlights, ink, stamps and links live in a PDF's annotation arrays. This tool removes those objects without turning pages into images, so original text and graphics stay intact.

The complete workflow runs locally in your browser. Your source file is not sent to PDFToolz or stored on a server.

How to remove annotations in your browser

  1. 1

    Add your source

    Choose a local file or use the direct-input controls shown in the workspace.

  2. 2

    Review the options

    Choose whether hyperlinks should be deleted with the markup or preserved in the cleaned file.

  3. 3

    Remove the annotations

    Run the tool, review the completion summary, then save the generated file or report to your device.

Why use PDFToolz for this

On-device processing

PDF parsing, rendering and export happen in browser memory, without an upload step.

Clear scope

This removes annotation objects, not marks that were previously flattened into page content. Flattened marks require content editing or redaction.

No account required

Use the tool without signup, a trial, a watermark or a server-side file quota.

Built for real documents

Progress feedback, device-memory limits and output descriptions make the result predictable before download.

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