How to remove watermark from PDF? If you have this need, you come to the right place. This post from MiniTool PDF Editor offers you 4 ways to remove PDF watermarks. You can try them.
Initially, watermarking is a technology that allows people to identify patterns on paper. When light shines on the paper, various shadows will appear on the paper. The patterns formed by these shadows are watermarks.
Watermarks are often used to verify the authenticity of currency, passports, postage stamps, government documents, or other paper documents.
Nowadays, people add watermarks to digital documents, images, or videos for copyright protection and marketing of digital works. The watermark can be a piece of text (your name for example) or a logo. In this way, your work is not at risk of theft. In addition, this will also increase your fame and brand awareness.
This post shows you how to add watermark to PDF using MiniTool PDF Editor and Microsoft Word. You can try them.
As you can see, adding watermarks is a good thing. Why do you need to remove watermarks? The reason is that the watermark is not added by the author of the work. For example:
If you are in the above cases, you may want to remove watermarks because these watermarks will limit your use of your work on other platforms. In addition, they will also affect the aesthetics of the work.
PDF (Portable Document Format) is one of the most popular file formats. It is mainly used for academic papers, journals, handbooks, company contracts, study materials, etc. Sometimes, you may need to compress PDFs, edit PDFs, convert PDFs to other file formats (or reverse), etc.
Some online services will allow you to deal with PDF files for free, but they will add watermarks to the output file. How to remove watermark from PDF? You can try the following ways.
What’s the best free PDF editor in 2024? Now, you come to the right place. This post lists several free PDF editors Windows and Online.
MiniTool PDF Editor is a PDF editing tool available on Windows. You can use it to write and draw on a PDF; add or remove notes, images, shapes, stamps, attachments, watermarks, and links to PDF; split/merge/compress PDFs, convert PDFs and images; and so on.
In this part, I will show you how to remove watermark from PDF using MiniTool PDF Editor. Here is the guide:
Adobe Reader is one of the popular PDF editing tools. It can also remove watermark from PDF. Here is the guide:
Microsoft Word 2013 and higher versions can open PDFs. It will make a Word copy of the PDF file. If you open a PDF file containing watermarks, it either removes watermarks automatically or displays the watermark as a text or image. Then, you can delete the watermark directly.
After that, you can save the Word file as a PDF file again. The defect of this PDF watermark remover is that the PDF to Word conversion may change the layout, font, or other elements of the PDF file.
The “Word cannot start the converter PDF Files” error will prevent you from opening PDF in Word. This post offers you 5 solutions.
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Sometimes, you cannot remove PDF watermarks using the above PDF watermark removers. These tools can only remove watermarks added by themselves or remove watermarks in a standard PDF document or a security-free file.
For example, I have added watermarks using Microsoft Word and then save the Word file as a PDF file. Then, I tried the above methods to remove the watermark but I failed. Finally, I removed the watermark using Google Docs.
PDF not converting to Word correctly? Here are the reasons and some corresponding solutions to fix PDF not converting to Word correctly.
Google Docs is the last PDF watermark remover I recommend to you. It will remove all watermarks from PDF automatically when it opens the PDF file. Here is the guide:
This PDF watermark remover also has defects. Like Microsoft Word, the PDF to Word conversion may change the layout, font, or other elements of the PDF file. In addition, Google Docs will reduce the quality of the images in the PDF file.
How to convert PDF to Word on Windows and online freely? This post will introduce a free PDF to Word converter and show you how to convert that in detail.
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Linda has been working as an editor at MiniTool for 5 years. She is always curious about computer knowledge and learns it crazily. Her articles are simple and easy to understand. Even people who do not understand computer can gain something. By the way, her special focuses are disk management, data recovery and PDF editing.
