diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index ad20566..d19fc1a 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 PDF2HTMLEX_PATH=/path/to/pdf2htmlex
 PSTOPDF_PATH=/path/to/ps2pdf
 EXTRACT_FORMFIELDS=/path/to/extract-formfields # available via cpp directory
-HIDE_FORMFIELDS=/path/to/hide-formfields # available via cpp directory
 PDFLIBS_PORT=8000
 HTML_GENERATION_TIMEOUT=7000
 HTML_GENERATION_BACKOFF=23000
diff --git a/config.js b/config.js
index 1576dba..e396183 100644
--- a/config.js
+++ b/config.js
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ if (!extractFormfieldsPath) {
   process.exit(1);
 }
 
-const hideFormfieldsPath = process.env.HIDE_FORMFIELDS;
-
 // 7 seconds (and then 30 seconds) seems like a sensible default I guess? We don't want PDFs
 // that don't need postscript optimization to be optimized in this way, but we also want to
 // stay under common reverse proxy timeout configurations so we don't receive a 504
@@ -42,6 +40,5 @@ module.exports = {
   extractFormfieldsPath,
   pdf2htmlexPath,
   psToPdfPath,
-  hideFormfieldsPath,
   htmlGenerationTimeoutConfig
 };
diff --git a/cpp/hide-formfields/CMakeLists.txt b/cpp/hide-formfields/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index f38e0c9..0000000
--- a/cpp/hide-formfields/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10)
-
-set (CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
-
-project(hide-formfields)
-
-find_library(poppler poppler)
-find_library(poppler-qt poppler-qt5)
-find_library(qt Qt5Core)
-
-message("${qt}")
-message("${poppler}")
-message("${poppler-qt}")
-
-set(LIB_DIR /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu)
-
-set(INCLUDE_POPPLER /usr/include/poppler/cpp)
-set(INCLUDE_POPPLER_QT /usr/include/poppler/qt5)
-set(INCLUDE_QT /usr/include/qt5)
-set(INCLUDE_QT_CORE /usr/include/QtCore)
-
-add_executable(hide-formfields main.cpp)
-
-include_directories(${INCLUDE_POPPLER} ${INCLUDE_POPPLER_QT} ${INCLUDE_QT} ${INCLUDE_QT_CORE} include)
-
-target_link_libraries(hide-formfields ${qt} ${poppler} ${poppler-qt})
diff --git a/cpp/hide-formfields/build.sh b/cpp/hide-formfields/build.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 13a681b..0000000
--- a/cpp/hide-formfields/build.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-mkdir bin
-mkdir build
-cd build
-cmake ..
-make
-mv hide-formfields ../bin
diff --git a/cpp/hide-formfields/main.cpp b/cpp/hide-formfields/main.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index d999e29..0000000
--- a/cpp/hide-formfields/main.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-#include <QtCore>
-#include <QString>
-#include <QDebug>
-#include <iostream>
-#include "poppler-qt5.h"
-#include "poppler-form.h"
-
-bool saveToFile(const QString &filename, const Poppler::Document* doc) {
-    Poppler::PDFConverter *pdfConv = doc->pdfConverter();
-    pdfConv->setOutputFileName(filename);
-    pdfConv->setPDFOptions(pdfConv->pdfOptions()|Poppler::PDFConverter::WithChanges);
-    bool success = pdfConv->convert();
-    delete pdfConv;
-
-    return success;
-}
-
-int main(int argc, char **argv) {
-    freopen("dev/null", "w", stderr);
-
-    QString filename, toFile;
-    filename = QString(argv[1]);
-    toFile = QString(argv[2]);
-
-    Poppler::Document* doc = Poppler::Document::load(filename);
-    Poppler::Page* page = doc->page(0);
-    QList<Poppler::FormField *> fields = page->formFields();
-
-    for(int j = 0; j < fields.length(); j++) {
-        Poppler::FormField *f = fields.at(j);
-        f->setVisible(false);
-    }
-
-    saveToFile(toFile, doc);
-
-    delete page;
-    delete doc;
-    return 0;
-}
diff --git a/deployment/docker/Dockerfile b/deployment/docker/Dockerfile
index 59ea059..ba39469 100644
--- a/deployment/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/deployment/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ ENV APP_ROOT=/usr/src/pdf-libs
 ARG EXTRACT_FORMFIELDS_ROOT=$APP_ROOT/cpp/extract-formfields
 
 WORKDIR $APP_ROOT
-# only copy extract-formfields since hide-formfields is broken
 COPY cpp/extract-formfields $EXTRACT_FORMFIELDS_ROOT
 WORKDIR $EXTRACT_FORMFIELDS_ROOT
 RUN $EXTRACT_FORMFIELDS_ROOT/build.sh && \
@@ -79,7 +78,7 @@ RUN apt update && apt upgrade -y && \
     ghostscript \
     && rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list \
     && apt-get clean \
-    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* 
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 WORKDIR $APP_ROOT
 
diff --git a/src/handlers/pdf/hide-formfields.js b/src/handlers/pdf/hide-formfields.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 55eadb8..0000000
--- a/src/handlers/pdf/hide-formfields.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-'use strict';
-
-const path = require('path');
-const os = require('os');
-const {v4: uuid} = require('uuid');
-
-const config = require('../../../config');
-const {exec} = require('../../utils');
-
-const hideFormfields = async (req, __res, next) => {
-  const outputPath = path.join(os.tmpdir(), `${uuid()}.pdf`);
-  req.cleanup.push(outputPath);
-
-  await exec(`${config.hideFormfieldsPath} ${req.filePath} ${outputPath}`);
-  req.filePath = outputPath;
-  next();
-};
-
-module.exports = {hideFormfields};
diff --git a/src/handlers/pdf/index.js b/src/handlers/pdf/index.js
index 80894d7..d328dff 100644
--- a/src/handlers/pdf/index.js
+++ b/src/handlers/pdf/index.js
@@ -3,6 +3,5 @@
 module.exports = {
   ...require('./get-formfields'),
   ...require('./optimize-pdf'),
-  ...require('./hide-formfields'),
   ...require('./convert-to-html'),
 };
diff --git a/src/router.js b/src/router.js
index 2be3ea9..517bf39 100644
--- a/src/router.js
+++ b/src/router.js
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ r.use(getFileFromFormData);
 
 r.post('/convertToHtml',
   debug(debugScopes.CONVERT_TO_HTML),
-  // hideFormfields,
   convertToHtml,
   optimizePdf,
   convertToHtml);
@@ -27,7 +26,6 @@ r.post('/getFormfields', debug('pdfLibs.formfields'), getFormfields);
 // DEPRECATED PATHS
 r.post('/pdf2html',
   debug(debugScopes.FORMFIELDS),
-  // hideFormfields,
   convertToHtml,
   optimizePdf,
   convertToHtml);