Crop PDF

How to use

Trims empty margins or unwanted edges from every page of a PDF. Drag the crop box to the area you want to keep, apply it to one page or all pages, and download the cropped PDF with tighter, cleaner margins.

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Select a PDF to crop

Trim margins from every page in your browser

When to use this
  • Removing scanner border artifacts from a scanned worksheet or document
  • Resizing pages to fit a specific paper size before printing
  • Trimming excess white space from a book excerpt before publishing
  • Standardizing margins across pages pulled from different sources

Free and private. Everything runs on your own device, with no account and no uploads.

Crop PDF trims excess margins or resizes pages to a custom crop box, which helps when preparing a document for printing on a specific paper size or removing scanner border artifacts from a scanned page. The cropping tool renders and clips pages directly in the browser, so no file upload is required to see or apply the crop.

Yes, you can define one crop area and apply it uniformly across every page in the document.

The content is hidden outside the visible crop area in the output file, effectively trimming the page dimensions.

Yes, most workflows let you set a custom crop per page if your document has inconsistent margins.

No, cropping only changes the visible page boundary and does not resample or degrade the underlying content.

You can crop again or re-upload the original file to start over, since the tool works on the file loaded in your session.

How it works
  1. 1

    Upload your PDF

    Select the PDF file you want to crop.

  2. 2

    Set the crop area

    Drag the crop handles over a page preview to define the region to keep.

  3. 3

    Apply to one or all pages

    Choose whether to apply the same crop to every page or just selected ones.

  4. 4

    Download the cropped PDF

    Save the resulting document with the new page boundaries.

Pro tips
  • ·Apply one crop uniformly across all pages when margins are consistent, but crop individually if pages have varying layouts.
  • ·Cropping only hides content outside the box in the output; it does not resample or blur the remaining content.
  • ·Keep the original file handy since you will need to re-upload it to adjust the crop area later.