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Flatten a PDF

Turn an interactive or annotated PDF into a clean, purely visual document. Flattening bakes in filled-in form values and rasterizes each page, removing hyperlinks, comments, embedded JavaScript, OCR layers and attachments — so the output looks exactly like the file would if you printed it and scanned it back in.

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Flatten PDF

Strip every hyperlink, annotation, OCR layer, embedded JavaScript, and attachment by rasterizing each page. Filled-in form values are preserved — they get baked into the page first, so the output looks exactly like the document would if you printed it and scanned it back in. Drop one PDF or many; bulk runs produce a ZIP. Output is purely visual.

DROP ONE OR MORE PDFs HERE
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    How it works

    1. Drop in one or more PDFs.
    2. The tool bakes filled form fields into the page, then rasterizes it.
    3. Hyperlinks, annotations, scripts and attachments are removed.
    4. Download the flattened PDF (batches export as a ZIP).

    Frequently asked questions

    Do filled-in form fields survive?
    Yes — form values are rendered into the page first, so they appear in the output even though the interactive fields are gone.
    Why flatten a PDF?
    To lock a document's appearance, strip hidden interactive elements before sharing, or remove embedded scripts and metadata risks.
    Is the text still selectable afterward?
    No — flattening makes pages purely visual. Run the result through OCR if you need a searchable text layer again.

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