How to Remove Annotations from a PDF (Highlights, Comments, Markup)
Strip all highlights, sticky notes, comments, and markup from a PDF online for free — get a clean unannoted version. No account, any device.
Received an annotated PDF and need a clean version? Or sharing a document but want to remove your review comments first? FixMyPDF's annotation remover strips all highlights, sticky notes, comments, and markup from any PDF, free, in your browser.
What Annotations Are Removed
All standard PDF annotation types are removed: text highlights (yellow, green, pink, blue), sticky note comments, freehand drawings and ink annotations, text underlines and strikethroughs, shape annotations (rectangles, circles, arrows), and text box overlays. The base page content is untouched.
How to Remove Annotations Online
Go to fixmypdf.in/tools/remove-annotations. Upload your annotated PDF. Click "Remove Annotations". Download the clean PDF — identical to the original document but with the annotation layer completely stripped.
Why Remove Annotations Before Sharing
Internal review comments often contain candid assessments, questions, or sensitive feedback not intended for external recipients. Stripping annotations before sharing a contract, report, or proposal ensures only the intended content reaches the other party — not your team's private review notes.
Removing Annotations vs Flattening
Removing annotations deletes the annotation data entirely — the marks disappear and the clean page content remains. Flattening merges annotations into the page content, making them permanent and visible. Remove when you want a clean document; flatten when you want annotations to be permanently visible.
Removing Highlights From Downloaded PDFs
PDFs you've highlighted for personal study (using Acrobat Reader, Preview, or an e-reader) can be stripped of those highlights if you want to share a clean version — even if you want to keep an annotated copy for yourself. Strip annotations from a copy, share the clean version, keep your personal annotated version.
Removing Comments from Collaborative Review PDFs
After a document review cycle, if you need to file the final version without review comments (for legal archives, compliance records, or final client delivery), use this tool to strip all reviewer comments before filing the final PDF.
After Removing Annotations
The clean PDF is ready to share, file, or archive. If you also want to remove hidden metadata (reviewer names, timestamps, comment content that may be in the PDF structure), use our metadata remover after annotation removal.
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