As Lobo said, there shouldn't be any need to clear the seams before export. The seam information is stored as .blend information, and isn't carried to .obj point data so far as I'm aware. Additionally the seam doesn't split/un-weld geometry either so there shouldn't be any reason to worry about it.

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