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PDF Comments Remover

Send a clean copy after a review. The comments remover deletes sticky notes, text boxes, pop-ups and other review comments from a PDF, and optionally highlights, underlines, strike-throughs, drawings and stamps too. Links and form fields are always kept, and you see how many comments of each kind the file had before you remove them.

  • Files stay on your device
  • No sign-up
  • Free to use

How to use PDF Comments Remover

  1. Drop the reviewed PDF onto the page.
  2. Check the counts of notes, markups and drawings.
  3. Choose whether to remove markups and drawings too.
  4. Download the clean PDF.

PDF Comments Remover features

One click

All review comments removed together.

Counts first

Notes, markups and drawings counted separately.

Options

Keep or remove highlights and drawings.

Safe

Links and form fields always kept.

Pop-ups

Comment pop-up windows removed with their notes.

Private

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When to use PDF Comments Remover

  • Publishing a document after internal review.
  • Sending contracts without negotiation notes.
  • Removing teacher feedback from a returned file.
  • Cleaning PDFs before archiving.

PDF Comments Remover FAQ

Which comments are removed?

Sticky notes, text boxes, insert marks, attachments, sounds and pop-ups always; highlights, underlines, strike-throughs and squiggles, and drawings, shapes and stamps when those options are ticked.

Are links and form fields affected?

No. They are never removed by this tool.

What about comments typed into the page?

Text that is part of the page content is not a comment annotation and stays.

Does the document text change?

No. Only annotations are removed.

Can I choose individual comments?

Not here; use the PDF Annotation Remover to pick types, or a PDF editor for single comments.

Is my PDF uploaded?

No. Everything happens in your browser.

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Removing review comments from PDFs

Reviewing a PDF leaves traces: notes, replies, highlights and markups made in Acrobat, Preview, Edge or a tablet app. They are useful during the review but should not reach the final reader, and they can reveal internal discussion that was never meant to be shared.

Comments in PDF are markup annotations, a family of annotation types that includes text notes, free text boxes, highlights, underlines, strike-outs, ink drawings, shapes and stamps. The remover targets that family and leaves functional annotations – links and form fields – untouched.

Because some people use highlights as permanent emphasis or stamps as approval marks, those groups are optional. The counts shown after you drop the file help decide: if a file has 40 notes and 3 stamps, you may want to keep the stamps.

Removal is done with pdf-lib on the page annotation lists. The page content, the text and the images are not touched.

Before removing comments, consider whether you need a record of the review. Keep a copy of the commented file for your archive and share only the cleaned version, so the discussion history is preserved where it belongs.

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