Crop PDF Pages Online (Free, Private, No Upload)

Remove unwanted margins, white space, and borders from PDF pages with precision cropping tools that work entirely in your browser. This tool is essential for cleaning up scanned documents with excessive margins, removing headers and footers from multi-page documents, adjusting page boundaries for better printing or digital display, trimming white space from exported slides or presentations, and preparing documents for consistent formatting across all pages. Cropping PDFs improves readability by focusing on the actual content, reduces file sizes by eliminating unnecessary blank space, ensures consistent margins across document sets, and creates cleaner presentations for professional distribution. Choose from preset margin options for quick standard crops, or use the interactive visual selector to drag and define your exact crop area with pixel-perfect precision. Apply your crop settings to individual pages for targeted adjustments, or crop all pages uniformly for consistent document formatting throughout. The tool preserves all PDF content within the cropped area, maintaining text searchability, embedded links, form fields, and annotations while simply adjusting the visible page boundaries. This is particularly useful for scanned documents where scanners capture more area than needed, creating large margins around the actual content; PDFs exported from presentation software that include extra white space; legal documents or forms where you want to remove header/footer information for privacy; and multi-page documents where consistent margins improve professional appearance. Unlike destructive editing that permanently deletes content, PDF cropping simply adjusts the viewing area while preserving the underlying page data, allowing the crop to be modified or removed if needed later. The entire process happens locally in your browser with no server uploads, ensuring complete privacy for sensitive documents.

How to Crop a PDF

  1. Click Choose PDF and select the document you want to crop.
  2. Use the preview canvas to visually select your crop area:
    • Click and drag on the PDF preview to draw your crop rectangle
    • Or choose a preset margin (small, medium, large) for quick standard crops
    • Or manually enter exact X, Y, Width, Height values for precision
  3. If your PDF has multiple pages, navigate between them and decide if you want to:
    • Crop only the current page
    • Apply the same crop to all pages (check the box)
  4. Click Download Cropped PDF to save your document with adjusted page boundaries.

Related tools: Rotate PDF, Split PDF, Compress PDF

FAQ

Does cropping delete content or just hide it?

PDF cropping adjusts the visible page boundaries (the "CropBox") without permanently deleting content. The underlying page data remains in the file. This means crops can potentially be reversed or adjusted later. If you need to permanently remove content for privacy or security reasons, use the Redact tool instead, which completely removes selected content from the PDF.

Will cropping reduce my PDF file size?

Cropping alone typically doesn't significantly reduce file size because it only adjusts viewing boundaries without removing the actual page content. However, if you're cropping large scanned images, you may see some size reduction. For dedicated file size reduction, use the Compress PDF tool after cropping.

Can I crop different areas on different pages?

Currently, you can crop individual pages one at a time, or apply the same crop to all pages uniformly. To crop different areas on different pages, you would need to process the document multiple times, selecting different pages each time, then merge the results using the Merge PDF tool.

How do I remove headers and footers from every page?

To remove consistent headers and footers across all pages, crop one page to exclude the header/footer area, then check the "Apply crop to all pages" option. This will crop the same area from every page in your document, effectively removing the headers and footers from the visible output.

What happens to form fields and annotations in the cropped area?

Form fields, annotations, and interactive elements within the cropped (visible) area are preserved and remain functional. Elements outside the crop boundary will be hidden but technically still exist in the PDF file. If you need to completely remove these elements, use dedicated editing tools or the Redact tool.

Can I undo a crop after downloading?

The cropped PDF you download has adjusted page boundaries. While the underlying content may still exist in the file, there's no built-in "undo" button. If you might need the original page boundaries later, keep a copy of your original uncropped PDF. You can always crop the original again with different settings.