What Crop PDF does
Crop PDF trims a PDF page down to the area you choose. Drag a rectangle over the part you want to keep, decide whether the crop applies to all pages, one page or a range, and download the result. It is useful for removing wide white margins, scanner borders and anything else around the content you actually need.
How to crop a PDF
- Add your PDF. The first page appears as a preview.
- Drag a rectangle over the area to keep. Drag again to redraw it.
- Choose where to apply the crop: all pages, only the page shown, or a page range.
- Press Crop PDF and download the file.
Use cases
- Removing large margins so text is bigger on a phone or e-reader.
- Cutting away the dark border and punched-hole marks of a scanned page.
- Keeping a single chart, label or ticket from a full page.
- Trimming empty space before using Compress PDF to KB, so the size budget is spent on content.
- Making slides or receipts print larger on paper.
Cropping hides content — it does not delete it
This is the most important thing to understand. Cropping changes the visible area of the page. The part outside the rectangle is no longer shown or printed, but it is still stored in the file, and someone with the right software can bring it back. Never crop to hide confidential information. To remove something permanently, use PDF Redactor.
Crop scope
| Option | Effect |
|---|---|
| All pages | The same rectangle is applied to every page — ideal for uniform margins |
| Only the page shown | Just the page in the preview is cropped |
| A page range | Pages you list, such as 2-10, are cropped |
The rectangle is applied by position, so “all pages” works best when pages are the same size and the content sits in the same place on each.
Tips
- Leave a little space around the text. A crop that touches the letters looks cramped and may cut off descenders or page numbers.
- Use the page buttons to look at a few pages before applying a crop to all of them. Odd and even pages of a book scan often have different margins.
- To crop pages differently, crop one page or range, download, then open the result and crop the next.
- The page size changes to the size of your rectangle. For printing on standard paper, use “fit to page” in the print dialog.
Common problems
The crop looks shifted on some pages. Those pages have a different size or layout. Apply the crop by range instead of to all pages.
The file size did not drop. Correct — hidden content is still in the file. Cropping changes what is shown, not how much is stored.
Privacy
Cropping is done in your browser. The PDF is not uploaded to our server.