Crop PDF

Crop PDF Pages to Trim Margins and Remove White Space

Scanned documents and exported reports often carry oversized margins, gray scanner borders, or empty white space that wastes screen room and paper. The Crop PDF tool lets you draw a rectangle over the area you want to keep and trims away everything outside it, so each page shows only the content that matters. It runs entirely in your browser, so your file is never uploaded to a server and there is no account, sign-up, or install to deal with.

How It Works

Open your PDF, then drag a rectangle on the page to mark the region you want to keep. You can apply that crop to all pages at once — ideal when every page shares the same layout — or crop a single page on its own when one page needs a different frame. Processing happens in your device's memory, so even large documents stay private and there are no upload delays.

Common Uses

• Trim PDF margins on documents exported at an oversized page size
• Remove white space around a chart, table, or figure before sharing
• Cut the gray scanner border and uneven edges from a scanned page
• Crop PDF pages down to a consistent reading area for tablets and e-readers
• Tighten a slide deck exported to PDF so each frame fills more of the view

Crop the Whole Document or a Single Page

When every page was scanned or exported the same way, applying one crop across the entire file is the fastest route to clean, uniform margins. When a cover page, a landscape chart, or a fold-out table needs its own boundaries, switch to single-page mode and crop just that page. This flexibility makes it easy to cut PDF margins on a mixed document without forcing every page into the same shape.

Honest Limitations

Cropping changes the visible boundaries of a page, not the words on it — text is not reflowed or re-typeset, so a two-column layout stays two columns within the area you keep. Because a single rectangle is applied to the pages you select, it works best when those pages share the same size and margins; pages with very different layouts are better cropped one at a time. Most importantly, cropping hides content by redrawing the page boundary rather than permanently erasing whatever falls outside it, so it is not a safe way to hide sensitive information. If you need to remove confidential content for good, use the Redact PDF tool instead.

Cropping also pairs well with other cleanup steps. If a scanned page is sideways, straighten it first with the Rotate PDF tool, then crop the borders so the final document reads cleanly on any screen.