Remove Annotations

Strip comments, highlights, and links.

Click to select a file or drag and drop

PDF file

Your files never leave your device.

About Remove Annotations

Remove Annotations deletes review comments and markup so you can share a clean copy of a document.

How to use it

Select your PDF, or drag it onto the drop area.
Choose which annotation types to remove.
Apply and download.

Your file stays on your device

This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your file is read from your device, processed in memory, and saved back to your device — it is never uploaded to QPDF or anyone else. Once this page has loaded, the tool also works with your internet connection switched off.

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Good to know

Review the result: some “comments” are part of the page content and are not annotations.

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