Crop your PDF margins by reducing the visible area of each page.
Margins wide enough to park in. Tightening the frame.— Poulpi
Margins to crop (in points)
Each margin is trimmed from the matching edge of every page. 72 points = 1 inch ≈ 2.54 cm.
You crop PDF pages to refocus them on what actually matters. Scanned documents often arrive with wide grey or black borders around the content; trimming those PDF margins tightens the view onto the useful text and gives you a far cleaner file to read on screen or send to print.
Cropping also helps when only one area of a page interests you: a table, a diagram, a slice of a plan floating in empty space. By removing the surrounding whitespace you bring the essential part forward and prepare a tidy page for print, with no headers or footers spilling over. The result is easier to share and takes up less room on screen.
Let us be honest about the mechanics: cropping shrinks the visible area of the page, its CropBox, without deleting the content beyond it. Whatever you cut out stays in the file, simply hidden from view. That is ideal for layout, but keep it in mind if your document holds sensitive information in the margins: it is not destroyed, only concealed.
Other tools pair naturally with cropping. rotate sets a crooked page upright before you trim it, compress slims the file once it is cleaned up, and extract-pages isolates the pages you want to keep. On privacy: your files are processed and then deleted automatically, and no sign-up is required to use the tool.
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Upload your PDF file into the drop area (or drag and drop it).
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Crop your PDF margins by reducing the visible area of each page.
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Download the resulting document in one click — your files are deleted automatically after processing.
Upload your PDF, set the margins to trim (top, right, bottom, left) in points, then download the cropped PDF: each page's visible area is reduced accordingly.
No. Cropping shrinks the visible area (CropBox) without deleting content: it stays in the file but is no longer displayed or printed.
No. Cropping adjusts the CropBox to hide the areas outside the frame, but the content still exists in the file. To truly erase it, you must flatten or reprint the document.
Yes, you can define a single crop area and apply it to all pages at once. This is handy for removing identical white margins across a scanned document.
Yes, this tool is 100% free with no usage limits. No sign-up, no credit card and no watermark added to your documents.
Yes. Your files are processed securely and automatically deleted from our servers after processing. Nobody has access to them.