# PDF is displayed without previous annotations

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**Category:** Technical Support\
**Created:** [June 2, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://pdfjs.community/t/pdf-is-displayed-without-previous-annotations/1738 "2022-06-02T21:09:00Z")\
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**Hello, I’m Ron, an automated tech support bot 🤖**

While you wait for one of our customer support representatives to get back to you, please check out some of these documentation pages:

Guides:
- [Disabling flattened annotations](https://pdfjs.express/documentation/annotation/disable-annotations)
- [Open a document, add annotations, download - 1. Disable flattened annotations](https://pdfjs.express/documentation/use-case/upload-download.8#1.-disable-flattened-annotations)
- [APIs for customizing UI](https://pdfjs.express/documentation/ui-customization/api.8)

APIs:
- [Core.DocumentViewer - disableAnnotations()](https://pdfjs.express/api/Core.DocumentViewer.html#disableAnnotations__anchor)
- [Core.Annotations.CustomAnnotation - new CustomAnnotation(type [, initializer])](https://pdfjs.express/api/Core.Annotations.CustomAnnotation.html#CustomAnnotation__anchor)
- [ExpressUtils(optionsopt) - # async set() → {Promise.}](https://pdfjs.express/api/utils/ExpressUtils.html#set__anchor)

Forums:
- [Annotation seems to be doubling or Creating a weird bold when doing a download externally](https://pdfjs.community/t/annotation-seems-to-be-doubling-or-creating-a-weird-bold-when-doing-a-download-externally/947/3)
- [Cannot view existing annotation on pdf in PDF.js Express Viewer](https://pdfjs.community/t/cannot-view-existing-annotation-on-pdf-in-pdf-js-express-viewer/1160/4)
- [I am getting weird icons when loading pdf using pdf.js@2.9.359](https://pdfjs.community/t/i-am-getting-weird-icons-when-loading-pdf-using-pdf-js-2-9-359/1330/1)

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