diff --git a/src-ui/src/app/components/common/pdf-viewer/pdf-viewer.component.scss b/src-ui/src/app/components/common/pdf-viewer/pdf-viewer.component.scss
index 6863f5463..b68836b4a 100644
--- a/src-ui/src/app/components/common/pdf-viewer/pdf-viewer.component.scss
+++ b/src-ui/src/app/components/common/pdf-viewer/pdf-viewer.component.scss
@@ -151,6 +151,13 @@
   inset: 0;
   pointer-events: none;
 
+  & section {
+    position: absolute;
+    text-align: initial;
+    box-sizing: border-box;
+    transform-origin: 0 0;
+  }
+
   & .annotationTextContent {
     opacity: 0;
   }
diff --git a/src-ui/src/app/components/common/pdf-viewer/pdf-viewer.component.ts b/src-ui/src/app/components/common/pdf-viewer/pdf-viewer.component.ts
index f5798650e..959ea3011 100644
--- a/src-ui/src/app/components/common/pdf-viewer/pdf-viewer.component.ts
+++ b/src-ui/src/app/components/common/pdf-viewer/pdf-viewer.component.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import {
   ViewChild,
 } from '@angular/core'
 import {
+  AnnotationMode,
   getDocument,
   GlobalWorkerOptions,
   PDFDocumentLoadingTask,
@@ -221,6 +222,7 @@ export class PngxPdfViewerComponent
       linkService: this.linkService,
       findController: this.findController,
       textLayerMode,
+      annotationMode: AnnotationMode.ENABLE,
       enableSelectionRendering: false,
       removePageBorders: true,
     }
diff --git a/src-ui/src/test/mocks/pdfjs-legacy-build-pdf.ts b/src-ui/src/test/mocks/pdfjs-legacy-build-pdf.ts
index 30e3ac410..aa5ec9460 100644
--- a/src-ui/src/test/mocks/pdfjs-legacy-build-pdf.ts
+++ b/src-ui/src/test/mocks/pdfjs-legacy-build-pdf.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ export const GlobalWorkerOptions = {
   workerSrc: '',
 }
 
+export const AnnotationMode = {
+  DISABLE: 0,
+  ENABLE: 1,
+  ENABLE_FORMS: 2,
+  ENABLE_STORAGE: 3,
+}
+
 export const getDocument = (_src: unknown): PDFDocumentLoadingTask => {
   return new PDFDocumentLoadingTask(Promise.resolve(new PDFDocumentProxy()))
 }