Remove comments and markup
Strip every comment, highlight and stamp — keeping your links and form fields.
- Zero-transmission processing
- No watermark
- Limited daily trial
- Unlimited on Pro
Drop your PDFs here
or pick them from your device
Your files are never transmitted. Nothing is uploaded.
Good to know
- Accepts
- Files at once
- One at a time
- Transmission
- None — nothing is uploaded.
Chain it
Run this tool and the next one back to back — nothing to download in between.
How to do it
- 1
Add your file
Add the document that came back from a review covered in comments, highlights and sticky notes.
- 2
Set it up the way you want
Choose what to strip. Links and form fields are kept by default, and there is a good reason for that.
- 3
Download the result
Download the clean file. The markup is gone and the document reads as though the review never happened.
Questions about Remove comments and markup
- Why are links and form fields kept?
- Because technically they are annotations too, and removing everything would silently destroy a clickable table of contents or a fillable form. Nobody who says "remove the comments" means "and break the form". They are kept unless you deliberately ask otherwise.
- Does this remove text that was crossed out or highlighted?
- No — it removes the marks, not the words. A highlight, a strikethrough or a comment sits on top of the text; taking it away leaves the original text exactly as it was. To remove the content itself, use Redact.
- Why not just accept the comments in the original editor?
- Because the comments often come from several people in several tools, and PDF markup does not travel back into Word. When the version you are shipping is the PDF, stripping the markup in one pass is faster and leaves nothing behind by accident.