Crop PDF
Trim the margins or cut down to just the part you need.
- Zero-transmission processing
- No watermark
- Limited daily trial
- Unlimited on Pro
Drop your PDF here
or choose it from your files
Your files are never transmitted. Nothing is uploaded.
Before you start
- Trim white margins finds the edges for you; set them yourself when the margin isn't white.
- Cropped too much? Undo an earlier crop brings the whole page back.
Good to know
- Accepts
- Files at once
- One at a time
- Transmission
- None — nothing is uploaded.
Chain it
Next, run Resize PDF → Multiple pages per sheet on the result back to back — nothing to download in between.
How to do it
Add your file
Add the PDF with margins you want gone. Thumbnails show the current page edges, which is how you spot the real problem — a scan is usually crooked and over-wide, not just wide.
Set it up the way you want
Drag on the page to mark the area to keep, or set each edge separately: top, right, bottom and left. “Trim white margins” measures the blank edges for you. Separate edges matter because scans are rarely symmetric, and a book scan usually needs a big bite off one side and almost nothing off the other.
Download the result
Cropping changes the visible page box, it does not delete anything. The content outside the new edges is still in the file, just not displayed — so a crop that went too far can be undone by cropping back the other way.
More than one change to make?
Open the editor: change the text that’s already there, fill and sign, cover up and rearrange pages — one file, undo for every step.
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Open the editorQuestions about Crop PDF
- Is the cropped-away content really gone?
- No, and you should know that. Cropping sets a smaller visible box; the original content stays in the file and can be recovered by anyone who changes the box back. If you need something genuinely removed, use Redact PDF, which is built to destroy content rather than hide it.
- Can I crop only some pages?
- Yes. Give a range and only those pages are trimmed. This is the normal case for a scanned book, where left-hand and right-hand pages need different amounts taken off opposite edges.
- What if I crop too much?
- The tool refuses a crop that would leave nothing, and tells you rather than producing an empty page. If the result is tighter than you wanted, run the cropped file through again with “Undo an earlier crop” ticked: the whole page comes back, because the content was only hidden.