Is it possible, using Preview (or maybe some other tool if not doable with Preview, but Preview preferably) to remove all annotations from a PDF file, without manually deleting every annotation?
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In the "Tools menu", choose "show inspector". In the inspector, select "Annotations inspector".
Press CMD+A to select all annotations, then click backspace to delete them.
- 3It even recognises and removes annotation made by other programs! (Tested with annotations made by PDF Expert on the iPad.)Harald Hanche-Olsen– Harald Hanche-Olsen2017-11-07 10:18:47 +00:00Commented Nov 7, 2017 at 10:18
- This works, but be careful. It will also remove links from the PDF if that document was built with links to websites.mikey– mikey2025-03-04 10:42:33 +00:00Commented Mar 4 at 10:42
- @mikey Indeed. So is there an expedite way of only removing "my" annotations? That is, highlights, underlines, or scribbles I did on the iPad. Without having to scroll through that list and selectively deleting each item I recognize as mine.a06e– a06e2025-07-12 09:54:01 +00:00Commented Jul 12 at 9:54
- Question asks explicitly about Preview, and there is an answer which shows that it is straight forward with preview. Why would I want another tool than the built in one for just this?scravy– scravy2023-03-20 04:20:48 +00:00Commented Mar 20, 2023 at 4:20