Flatten PDF: fields, comments and signatures fixed on the page

Flattening a PDF writes onto the page itself what the file keeps apart: form fields, comments and the visible signature stop being editable and become a fixed drawing, while the text stays searchable. For a PDF that is not editable at all, each page can become an image. Everything runs in your browser.

Your PDF never leaves your device

The PDF

Everything happens in this tab; your PDF does not change, a new flattened file is created.

How to flatten

What changes

Fields and comments

Whole page as an image

They become a fixed drawing on the page; the text stays selectable and searchable, and links keep working.

Form fields (0)

What was typed or ticked stays on the page; the form is gone.

Comments and markups (0)

Highlights, freehand drawings, stamps and text boxes. Comment notes (the balloon) stay as comments.

Visible digital signatures (0)

The signature drawing stays; the digital validity is lost anyway, because the file changes.

Missing: the PDF.