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Remove Watermarks & Bates Numbers

Surgically strip watermarks and prior Bates labels out of a PDF's underlying content stream — the targeted objects are deleted, not just covered up. Rotated watermark text and recurring stamps are auto-flagged; click one and remove it across every page and even across a batch of files. Runs entirely on your device.

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Remove Objects

Surgically strip watermarks and prior Bates labels out of the PDF's underlying content stream — the targeted text objects are deleted, not painted over. Drop one PDF or a batch; rotated text and common watermark words are auto-flagged. Click any item to mark/un-mark it — with propagation on, the click is applied to every other page and every other uploaded PDF that has a matching item, so you can identify a stamp on one document and bulk-remove it from the rest. If we can't isolate a marked object cleanly (rare — usually because it's stamped into a scanned image), we fall back to rasterizing the page and painting the target out.

DROP PDFs HERE
or click to upload (one or many)

How it works

  1. Drop in one PDF or a batch.
  2. Rotated text, watermark keywords and corner Bates labels are auto-detected.
  3. Click any item to mark it; propagation removes matching items across pages and files.
  4. Download cleaned PDFs (a ZIP for batches).

Frequently asked questions

How is this different from redacting?
Redaction rasterizes and blacks out areas. This removes the actual text objects from the content stream, leaving the rest of the page — including its text layer — intact.
Can it remove a watermark from every file at once?
Yes — identify a watermark on one document and propagation marks and removes the matching stamp across the whole uploaded batch.
What if the watermark is part of a scanned image?
Then it is not selectable text and must be redacted instead; this tool works on text-layer objects.

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