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Find Comments and Links in a PDF
Find comments, highlights and links left in a document.
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How it works
Reports every annotation by type and page. Review comments have a habit of surviving into final documents, where they are visible to anyone who opens the file — and each one carries an author name and a timestamp.
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Questions
- Why check before sending a document?
- Comments carry names and dates, and readers display them by default.
- Are links annotations too?
- Yes, which is why removing annotations removes a clickable contents page.
- How do I remove them?
- Remove PDF Annotations.