Crop a PDF
Drag the box, trim the margins — on all pages or just one — with a live preview, without your document leaving your device.
Open your network tab while it runs: zero requests. Your document stays yours.
How to crop a PDF
- Select or drop your PDF — it's read by your browser, never sent to a server.
- Drag the crop box — move it or pull its corners on the live page preview; flip through pages to check the fit; choose all pages or just this one.
- Crop → download — the visible area of each page is set to your box — every PDF viewer honors it.
Trimming scanner borders and oversized margins makes PDFs read better on tablets and e-readers. It runs on the same in-browser engine as our PDF merger, PDF splitter, and PDF to Markdown converter — the file never leaves your machine.
Cropping PDFs, answered honestly.
No. The crop is computed and written inside your browser, and the result downloads on your device. Open the network tab while it runs: zero requests.
No — and we say this plainly: cropping sets each page's CropBox, the visible area every PDF viewer honors. The content outside the box isn't deleted, just hidden; tools that read the full page can still see it. If you need content permanently removed, that's redaction, not cropping.
Yes — untick 'Apply to all pages' and only the page you're viewing is cropped.
No. Nothing is re-rendered — the pages keep their exact original content, with a smaller visible window.
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