March 24, 20262 min read

Remove Hyperlinks from PDF — Strip All Clickable Links

Remove all hyperlinks and clickable URLs from a PDF. Clean documents for printing, archiving, or security before sharing.

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Why Remove Hyperlinks?

PDFs often contain clickable hyperlinks that may be unwanted:

Security — links could point to phishing sites or malware downloads
Print preparation — hyperlinks are useless on paper but can cause formatting issues
Archival — links break over time (link rot); removing them prevents confusion
Distraction-free reading — remove clickable elements for clean reading experience
Corporate compliance — some organizations require link-free documents for external sharing

Open MyPDF's Remove Hyperlinks tool and upload your document.

The tool removes all:

The link text remains visible — only the clickable action is removed.

Download the link-free PDF.

Removed	Kept
Clickable URL actions	The visible text (e.g., "click here" stays, just not clickable)
Blue underlined link formatting (optional)	Regular text and formatting
Mailto links	Email addresses as plain text
Internal bookmarks links	Bookmark sidebar entries

Remove formatting too — optionally remove the blue color and underline so links look like regular text
Combine with JavaScript removal — for maximum security, also remove JavaScript
Print-ready docs — remove links before creating print PDFs so readers don't see underlined URLs they can't click

No — the visible text stays. "Visit example.com" remains as text, but clicking it no longer opens a browser.

Yes — select a page range to only strip links from those pages.

Some configurations allow keeping internal navigation links while removing external URLs.