Delete comments, highlights, stamps, sticky notes, link annotations, and markup from PDF documents in your browser. Scan annotations, search or filter the list, and selectively remove items while preserving form fields and digital signatures.
Last updated: May 2026 | By Patchworkr Team
The tool attempts to remove selected PDF annotations such as comments, highlights, stamps, ink drawings, sticky notes, and markup from the uploaded document.
Use the search filter to find annotations by content, author, type, or page number before you remove them.
The tool scans each PDF page for annotations that can be reviewed, searched, and removed individually. That includes common markup and review items found in legal, editorial, and business PDFs.
Delete comments, highlights, sticky notes, stamps, and other PDF annotations before sharing or archiving documents. This is a practical way to clean up reviewed files while keeping the original PDF structure intact.
Search annotations, review the matching results, and remove only the items you want from the final file.
Removing annotations can help clean up a PDF before final distribution, archiving, or re-sharing. It is useful when you want to clear review comments, visual markup, and other temporary notes from a document.
Removing annotations can help you:
You can keep form fields and digital signatures protected while removing other annotations. Widget annotations, signature fields, and signature-related items can be preserved during cleanup.
The tool shows a status for protected items, so you can avoid removing widgets or signature-related annotations by mistake.
Files are processed locally in the browser without uploading to servers. That keeps the annotation scan and removal workflow private while you clean the document.
Yes. Highlights, comments, and many other annotation types can be selected and removed individually.
No. Form fields and digital signatures can be preserved using the protection settings.
No. Digital signatures can be preserved using the protection settings.
No. Files are processed locally in your browser.
You can remove selected comments, highlights, stamps, sticky notes, ink drawings, links, text annotations, and free text boxes.
Yes. Use the search filter to find annotations by content, author, type, or page number.
Yes. Keep Form Fields and Keep Digital Signatures can protect those items while you remove other annotations.
Yes. Upload multiple PDFs and clean them one file at a time from the file list.