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Crop PDF

Trim the margins of one or many PDFs: drag the box to set the crop. Non-destructive and lossless, all in your browser.

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Why crop a PDF?

Plenty of PDFs carry margin you don't want: a thick white border from a scanner, a slide deck printed with empty space around each slide, or a page where only one corner actually matters. Cropping trims the page down to the part you care about, so the content fills the view, reads cleanly on a phone, and prints without wasted space around the edge. Drag the crop box over the area to keep and apply it to every page at once, or limit it to a range of pages when only some need trimming. Working with more than one PDF? Use the same box across all of them, or set a different crop per file. A few common print and screen ratios are there as quick presets when you'd rather not eyeball it. Cropping sets each page's crop box, the standard way every PDF viewer decides what to show, so it is lossless: the text stays selectable and the images aren't re-rendered or blurred. It all happens in your browser, so the PDF never leaves your device.

How do I crop a PDF online for free?

Open your PDF and drag the box to the part of the page you want to keep, then download. Cropping trims the margins from view across every page (or just the pages you choose), the text stays selectable, and it all runs in your browser, so the file is never uploaded.

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Frequently asked questions

Does cropping delete the content outside the box?
No. Cropping hides the margins by setting the page's crop box, but the trimmed-away content technically stays inside the file and someone could widen the box again to bring it back. To genuinely remove sensitive content so it cannot be recovered, redact it instead. Redact a PDF
Will cropping make the file smaller?
Not really. Because the trimmed area is hidden rather than thrown away, the page content is still in the file, so the size stays about the same. To reduce the file size, compress it. Compress a PDF
Can I crop every page, or only some of them?
Both. Apply the crop to every page in one go, or choose a page range so only the pages you pick are trimmed. The pages you leave out keep their full size.
Does cropping lower the quality or lose the text?
No. It only changes which part of each page is shown, so the text stays selectable and the images aren't re-compressed. The page content underneath is untouched.
Can I crop several PDFs at once?
Yes. Add as many PDFs as you like and either use one shared crop box for all of them or set a separate crop for each file, then download them together.
I need to rotate a page, not crop it.
If a page is sideways or upside down rather than over-wide, turn it the right way up instead. Rotate a PDF

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