Free and trial PDF tools stamp their output with a "created with" or "trial version" mark. Those are added as stamps, promo annotations or link bands — all of which Remove Watermark on Auto detect recognises and deletes, without disturbing the rest of the document. PDF files only.
Where trial watermarks come from
When you export a PDF from a free tier or an unlicensed trial of iLovePDF, Sejda, Soda PDF, Foxit, Wondershare PDFelement, PDF Candy and similar programs, they add a promotional mark: sometimes a visible "created with…" stamp, sometimes a clickable link band in a corner, sometimes a faint page-edge banner. All three are objects the software layered onto your file.
Remove Watermark looks specifically for these promo bands — by their wording and by the tell-tale link targets — and removes them as watermarks, while leaving ordinary hyperlinks in your document alone.
Step by step
- Open Remove Watermark from PDF and upload the file. It is PDF-only; convert other formats first with Word to PDF, PPT to PDF or JPG to PDF.
- Leave it on Auto detect — it will find the promo stamp or link band automatically.
- If the banner is a solid colour, turn on Remove a specific colour and pick it to strip the band while leaving the page untouched.
- Click Remove watermark, confirm the before/after preview, and download.
When the banner is part of a scan
If the export was flattened to an image, there is no object to delete. Switch to AI mode (a PDF Pro feature), draw a box around the banner so only that area is cleaned, and run it. Because AI mode rebuilds pages as images, follow up with OCR PDF if you need selectable text back, and Compress PDF if the file grew.
Only on files you're entitled to
This is meant for documents you produced and now hold a license for — not for stripping a rights holder's watermark from content you don't own. Free downloads keep the small PDFBEAR badge; PDF Pro removes every watermark for a completely clean file.
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