Why Remove Annotations? After a document has been reviewed, the annotations served their purpose and often need removing before the final version is distributed. A contract with a lawyer's margin notes shouldn't reach the client. A manuscript with an editor's tracked changes shouldn't be sent to the printer. Academic paper reviews with referee comments need stripping before publication. Removing annotations produces a clean, professional final document.
Types of Annotations You Can Remove This tool handles any annotation visible on the rendered page. That includes text highlights (yellow, green, blue, pink), sticky note icons, text comment boxes, strikethrough marks, underlines, squiggly underlines, freehand drawings, arrows, circles, rectangles, text callouts, margin notes, and any other visual markup. If the annotation is visible when the page renders, you can draw a box around it and erase it.
Important Consideration for Highlights When you erase a highlighted area, the highlight and the text underneath are both covered by your chosen fill. This is because the tool works visually — it cannot separate the highlight layer from the text layer. If you need to remove only the highlight color while keeping the text, this approach won't preserve the text. However, for sticky notes, comment icons, margin notes, and annotations in blank areas, the erasure is clean and doesn't affect document content.