How do I unhighlight text

Hello Downloadproblems,

Sorry for the delayed response and inconvenience caused. As George Kaiser correctly mentioned that the comments can be removed using JavaScripting.

You can also refer to the following Adobe discussion to know more about removing highlights in PDF documents Removing highlights in PDF documents

How do I remove highlighting from a previously-created document in Adobe Acrobat DC?

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Feel free to update this discussion for any further assistance.

Regards,

Anand Sri.

[Edited response]

What I'd described was good to go for "XI". Just walked through using "DC" (Reader / Acrobat) -- for me, worked a-ok.

Be well...

I notice this question is unanswered, and I share your frustration. This should be so simple and intuitive, and it's not - it's bloody &*^% lame. I've got a huge doc to deal with and I'm stuck - instead of working, I'm doing this.

I was finally able to remove the highlight quite accidentally. I'm on a Macbook, OS 10.10.2, and had a 57-page pdf that I'd applied yellow text highlight using software I can't remember--either Adobe Reader or Preview. I was unable to remove the highlight with either of those apps, so I downloaded Acrobat Pro XI.

Here's what I did to remove the highlighting:

1. Default Tools>Content Editing>Edit Text & Images. That created a movable rectangle around every paragraph of text.

2. I moved that text by moving the rectangle, discovering that the text moved independently of the applied yellow highlighting.

3. For each paragraph I wanted to UNhighlight, I moved that text rectangle a little bit away from the yellow highlight bars. Then I clicked on each yellow highlight bar, line-by-line, and pressed DELETE. The highlighting was gone.

4. I repositioned the UNhighlighted text to its original location and hit SAVE.

Problem solved (although I'd hate to have to do this manual process for lots of pages, this worked fine for the few pages I needed to clear).

After using Adobe Reader XI or Acrobat to apply a Highlight annotation you can remove it with ease.

Using the Highlight tool select the highlight annotation, tap the Delete Key.

Or open the Comments List, select desired highlight annotation and delete.

There are some others but these two will suffice.

Be well...