Students and researchers
Trim wide margins off papers and scans so the content fills the page for reading or printing.
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Crop PDF
Trim margins or cut a PDF to just the area you want — across one page or the whole document.
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How to crop PDF pages
Define the area to keep and remove unwanted margins, marks, or edges from selected pages.
Describe the crop
Pick an example or say what to trim — white margins, headers, or everything outside a region.
Who crops PDFsUseful for scanned documents, slide exports, handouts, and files with oversized margins.
Office workers
Cut headers, footers, or stamps from documents before sharing a cleaner version.
Anyone fixing scans
Remove the black borders and uneven edges that scanners add around a page.
Tips for accurate PDF croppingPage range, crop box, margins, and whether pages share the same layout determine the result.
"keep the center" or "trim 2cm margins" — be specific about the area.
Apply the crop to the whole PDF or just a page or range.
Ask to remove black scan borders for a clean, printable page.
Use one crop box for all pages, or different crops where layouts differ.
Cropping changes the view area only — text inside stays full quality.
Crop many PDFs the same way in one instruction.
What to expect from PDF cropping
Review output quality, follow-up checks, and download expectations for PDF cropping.
What to expect from PDF cropping
Cropping adjusts the PDF's visible page boundaries (MediaBox/CropBox), so file size typically changes very little — usually 0–15% smaller, since content outside the crop is hidden but not deleted. Most crops complete in under 10 seconds for documents up to 100 pages. Best input: a PDF plus clear crop intent, such as remove scanner borders, trim white margins, crop all pages the same way, or crop only selected pages.
Example: Input: a scanned worksheet PDF with large scanner-bed borders and a dark edge on the left side. Output: the same pages cropped to the document area, with excess margins removed and text easier to read. Good for cleaning scans before printing, emailing, or OCR.
Cropping limits to know
- File size barely shrinks because PDF cropping hides content outside the crop box rather than deleting it — the original data remains embedded, so storage savings are minimal.
- Scanned PDFs with uneven or skewed borders may produce inconsistent crops if white-space detection misjudges the content boundary, requiring manual adjustment.
- Cropping cannot remove headers or footers that are part of a scanned image layer — it can only trim the page boundary, not erase text or graphics within the kept region.
Frequently asked questions
Upload your PDF and describe what to remove — for example, 'cut 15 mm from all four margins' or 'strip the white borders' — and you'll get a cropped file back at no cost. The tool is free to start with no account required.
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