How do I remove tags from a PDF document?

[Archon43]

How do I remove all the tags from a PDF document using acrobat XI pro?

[philippanmei · Accepted solution]

See the images

1. Go to View menu and select Show/Hide > Navigation Panes > Tags

2. Click on Tags panel and right click on Tags and choose Delete Tags, this will remove all the tags.

To delete particular tags and expand the tags and right click and choose delete.

Thanks

[Ajeet_Rathore]

great, thanks

[dorothyg1234]

Thank you! Still works in 2020!

[anewmel2009]

And still works in 2021! Woo hoo!

[paulh41164938]

Work in 2022! WooHoo is right!

[Philz49]

Thank you philippanmei!! 😁👌🏽

[Ron27394794bki2]

and it still works! Thanks!

[peggyf1015]

Thank you philippanmei -- Removing Tags did the trick.

[monicalove666]

I know your post is >2 yrs old but I had to send my sincere thanks. I was almost losing my mind over not being able to move a page and your instructions worked! Now to do some more research to find out what exactly a tag is THANKS!!

[Abambo]

Please look here for a starter on Tags: Creating accessible PDFs in Adobe Acrobat

Tags are basically additional information on a file allowing for different devices (example screen readers) to interpret the page correctly (example: a tag on an image describes that image).

[peggyf1015]

Thank you! My question is answered. I keep getting the answers emailed to me even though it says at the top of my page here that my question has been answered. The emails I get with each new post say to click "Correct" under the answer. There is no "correct" to click.

No idea how to stop this string.... but THANK YOU. MY QUESTION HAS BEEN ANSWERED.

[peggyf1015]

This question has been answered. At the top of my screen is stays “Answered.” But I keep getting new answers emailed to me with the note to click “Correct” under the answer on the forum page. There is NO “correct” to click because the question has been answered.

Please stop sending answers. I appreciate everyone’s time, but it is no longer necessary.

[jordane24479020]

YES! this worked!

[alwalker6]

I just tried this and when I click on tags it say No Tags

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

If the tag tree looks like this, then there aren't any tags in the PDF.

Acrobat's Tag Tree panel shows that the PDF is untagged.

[filibustero]

good, day im from ph.
i encounter the same problem and tried all those that were suggested but didnt worked for me.
but we find ways ^_^.
heres what i did.

pdf file (one with issues) extracted into a word file.
word file- extracted into a pdf file (cleaned)

pdf file now can be extracted,

idon't know how to really fix this within the softwares itself,

i just think we need to clean/ clear files for ACROBAT, kind of a way around.

tenkyuu!! 
#aminangwestPHsea!!!

[DL26772374o38z]

this method worked for me, while the other method did not 10-24-22

[abrar7866]

Doesn't work on 26.04.2022.

[Bernd Alheit]

What is 26.04.2022?

[AdamRRG]

I am noticing that periodically there are tags that will not delete, the only option seems to be to clear the entire page structure and start again. Is there any way to force delete a tag?

Using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 2022.001.20112 macOS