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PDF Crop Tool

Trim white space or unwanted edges from PDF pages. Enter margins to cut from each side, or type an exact box measured from the bottom-left corner, in millimetres, points or inches. A preview of the first selected page shows the area that will be kept inside a dashed rectangle, and the crop can be applied to every page or a range.

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Crop the Pages of Your PDF

Drag and drop a PDF here, or click to browseAccepted: PDF. Up to 100 MB.
How to crop
Leave blank for every page, or type pages and ranges such as 1-3, 5.

How to Use the PDF Crop

  1. Choose your PDF; the first page appears in the preview.
  2. Pick a unit, then either enter the margins to trim or switch to Exact box and enter the left, bottom, width and height of the area to keep.
  3. Watch the dashed rectangle update on the preview. Optionally limit the crop to certain pages.
  4. Press Crop and download the cropped PDF.

About This Tool

People tidying scanned pages with wide borders, designers removing crop-mark areas, and anyone who needs a PDF at a particular page size for printing or e-readers.

Input: PDF  ·  Output: PDF.

Features and Limitations

Features

  • Live preview with a dashed outline and darkened cropped-away area, plus a text description of the kept size.
  • Millimetres, points or inches; values convert when you switch unit.
  • Margins are relative to each page, so mixed page sizes are handled; exact boxes use the same coordinates on every page.
  • Sets the CropBox, or both CropBox and MediaBox so the page size itself changes.
  • Works on rotated pages: top, left and the rest follow the page as displayed.

Limitations

  • Cropping hides the outer area rather than deleting it: the content is still in the file and can be recovered by changing the page box. Do not use it to redact sensitive information.
  • Some programs ignore the CropBox and show the full page; choose “CropBox and MediaBox” for the broadest effect.
  • The preview uses the first page of your selection, so other pages with different layouts can look different.
  • The crop area must stay at least 5 points wide and tall on every page.
  • Processing happens on your device, so very large files depend on your browser's available memory.

Example

An A4 page (210 × 297 mm) cropped with 10 mm on every side becomes a 190 × 277 mm page.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does cropping permanently remove the content outside the box?

No. The content outside is hidden by the page boundary but is still stored in the file. For sensitive information use a proper redaction tool.

What is the difference between CropBox and MediaBox?

The MediaBox is the full page; the CropBox is the part viewers display and print. Changing only the CropBox is reversible, while changing both makes the page size itself smaller.

How do I crop to an exact size such as 190 × 277 mm?

Choose Exact box, set Left and Bottom to where the area starts (for example 10 and 10 mm) and Width and Height to 190 and 277.

Can I crop different pages differently?

Run the tool several times with different page ranges, using the output of each run as the input for the next.

Why does the preview use only one page?

It shows the first page of your selection so you can judge the crop. The same margins are then applied to every selected page.

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