mutool bake

The bake command bakes PDF forms into static content.

mutool bake [options] input.pdf [output.pdf]

[options]

Options are as follows:

-A

Do not bake annotations into page contents.

-F

Do not bake form fields widgets into page contents.

-O options

See PDF Write Options. If none are given garbage is used by default.

input.pdf

Name of input PDF file.

output.pdf

Name of output PDF file. If none is given out.pdf is used by default.

Normally annotations and form field widgets are separate content streams that get drawn on top of the page contents. This command bakes annotations and/or widgets into the page contents, making them inseparable. After baking in annotations and widgets they are just visual representaitons of what the original annotation/widget looked like, their properties can no longer be edited since they no longer exist as proper annotation/widgets.