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Clean up annotations

Remove comments from a PDF

Delete notes, highlights, stamps and drawings before you send a PDF, and keep links and form fields if you want.

Drop your PDF here or click to browse
  • Processed on your device, never uploaded
  • Free, no sign-up, no watermark

About Remove comments

This tool deletes comments and annotations from a PDF before you send it. It removes notes, highlights, underlines, stamps, drawings and attachments, and you can choose to keep links and form fields. It is a free way to remove comments from PDF online, with no sign-up, no watermark and no daily cap.

Only the annotations are removed. The page content stays the same, so your text, images and layout are untouched.

It suits anyone sending a final version after a review. For example, a lawyer can clear all the internal review notes and highlights from a draft agreement, keep the form fields for signatures, and send a clean copy to the other side. Everything is done in your browser, and the PDF is never uploaded.

How to use Remove comments

  1. Drop your PDF on the page, or click Choose file.
  2. Choose what stays: turn on Keep links and Keep form fields if you need them.
  3. Click Remove comments. Every other annotation is deleted.
  4. Download the clean PDF.
  5. To clean another file, click New file.

All annotation types

Notes, highlights, underlines, stamps, drawings and attachments.

Pages untouched

Only annotations are removed; page content stays the same.

Private by design

Done in your browser; your PDF is never uploaded.

Free, no limits

No sign-up, no watermark and no daily cap.

Example

Input: draft-agreement.pdf with sticky notes, highlights and fillable fields.

You turn on Keep form fields and click Remove comments.

Result: a clean PDF with the same pages and working form fields, but no notes or highlights.

FAQ

Remove comments: questions people ask

How do I delete all comments in a PDF?

Open the file here and press Remove comments.

Will it remove highlights?

Yes. Highlights and other markup are annotations too.

Does it change my pages?

No. Only annotations are removed, and the page content stays the same.

Is my file uploaded?

No. Everything happens in your browser.

Related tools

  • Redact PDF: Remove private text from the pages themselves.
  • Flatten PDF: Lock form fields into the page once they are filled.
  • Compress PDF: Make the clean file smaller to send.
  • Edit metadata: Check the author and title before sharing.

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