Watermarks play a very important role in securing documents and preventing files from being maliciously stolen by others. But sometimes you need to remove the watermark from the PDF document to facilitate viewing or editing. If you can not successfully remove the watermark, then this article will give you the answer. It should be noted that the process must be carried out under legal conditions.
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Most of the users must have tried to remove the watermark by themselves, but didn’t find the right way to do it before coming to the Internet for help. Before we get started, let’s see why users want to remove the watermarks on PDF.
And why can’t you remove watermark from PDF successfully? We have analyzed the following reasons for you:
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As a professional PDF editor, Cisdem PDFMaster has provided users with a huge number of editing tools, making it quite easy to edit the existing text/images/links in PDF and fill forms. Other than a PDF editor, this program also works as a PDF converter, creator, compressor, locker, unlocker, as well as a PDF watermark remover. It is capable of recognizing both text and image watermarks created by other software, then removing them from PDF with one click.
Additionally, if you desire to add new watermarks in PDF for security, this application will live up to your expectations and even do better. Specifically, no difficulties to add watermarks, passwords, signatures and redaction to protect your PDF.
Luckily, Windows users and Mac users can use the Edit feature to remove watermarks from PDF, check the tutorial as follows:
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Tip: For PDF containing image watermarks, the steps are the same.
As one of the preferred PDF software in the office, Adobe Acrobat Pro DC has attracted everyone’s attention. Indeed, it can be said to be perfect in terms of features, basically there is no PDF-related problems it can not solve. In addition to removing watermarks from PDF, it also allows users to add watermark and update watermark.
Let’s follow the tutorial to remove watermark from PDF with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.
Not just serving for word files, Microsoft Word can also handle PDF files, such as quickly opening PDF files and removing watermarks from PDF. Here we explore three ways to remove watermarks from PDF with the help of Microsoft Word.
How to Remove Watermark from PDF in Microsoft Word Directly?
How to Remove Watermark in MS Word by Clicking the Header Area?
How to Remove Watermark in MS Word by Customizing Watermark?
For Windows 11/10/8.1/7/XP, there is a top-rated PDF solution that allows you to remove watermark in PDF, add/modify/delete text in PDF, create/convert PDF to popular formats, optimize the file size without quality loss, create valid e-signature, separate PDF documents into individual pages, etc. As an excellent PDF watermark remover, it enables you to custom watermark, update watermark and delete all the watermarks on PDF at once.
How to Remove Watermark from PDF on Windows?
Note: Not all watermarks in a PDF can be recognized by this app, since they may not be created in a standard format. Therefore, it will fail to remove watermark from PDF.
Apart from desktop software mentioned above, many online tools available also help users remove watermarks from PDF in a breeze. They are easy to access with a stable Internet connection and take few steps to complete this task.
Google Docs is a free and great word processor that can easily convert PDF to editable file. In this way, users can delete watermark with just a click.
Why Pick Google Docs?
First of all, it’s free, simple-to-use and based on cloud service. In addition, we can insert PDF into Google Docs and make it editable.
Why Avoid Google Docs?
Actually, it takes a long time to convert a large PDF file into word format. Most time, it won’t maintain the original formatting in the converted file and images/image watermarks even cannot be displayed correctly as the figure shows.
How to Remove Watermark from PDF Free Online with Google Docs?
When googling how to remove watermark from PDF, we found that people are very interested in these four online tools: Smallpdf, Soda PDF, iLovePDF and PDFfiller. Will they do an excellent job in removing watermark from PDF as people expect? To save you time and effort, we have tested each of them using PDF files containing images and text watermarks separately. The results are as follows:
The article ends with an additional method for users using Python, that is, converting PDF documents to images, and then finding the specific pix of watermark and change them into (255,255,255), then you can successfully remove the watermark. Take a look at the specific steps we have provided for you:
Till now, we have shared multiple different ways to remove watermark from PDF, both offline and online. However, no matter how powerful these PDF watermark removers are, there will always be situations that watermarks cannot be auto identified and removed. In this case, you can try converting the watermarked PDF to an editable format, which will make the layer on which the watermark is located selectable. Otherwise, you’ll have to utilize PhotoShop to remove the watermarks bit by bit.
Bianca is a senior tech editor and strategist at Cisdem with Over 10 years of experience on PDF related solutions which covers all document editing, annotating, converting and managing etc.
