Crop PDF
Shrink the visible area of your pages by setting margins in points.
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Scans often arrive with a black border, a shadow along one edge, or margins so generous that the content looks lost. Cropping trims the visible area of the page by the margins you set, which tightens the layout for printing or for reading on a small screen. The underlying content is preserved rather than deleted — cropping changes the page's visible box, so the operation is conservative and reversible from the original file.
How to crop a PDF
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Upload the PDF you want to trim.
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Enter how many points to cut from the top, right, bottom and left. 72 points is one inch, about 28 points is a centimetre.
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Leave the page box empty to crop everything, or list specific pages.
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Press Crop PDF and download the trimmed document.
What you get
- Independent control of all four margins.
- Crop the whole document or only the pages that need it.
- The tool refuses margins that would leave nothing visible on the page.
- Content is hidden rather than destroyed, so nothing is re-rendered.
Questions about Crop PDF
What people usually want to know before they upload a document.
How many points should I crop?
Points are the PDF's own unit: 72 points to an inch, roughly 28 to a centimetre. Start with 20 to 30 points to remove a typical scanner edge, then adjust once you have seen the result.
Does cropping make the file smaller?
Barely. Cropping changes which part of the page is displayed, not what the page contains. Use Compress PDF if size is the goal.
Can I crop different pages by different amounts?
Yes, by running the tool more than once and listing different pages each time with different margins.
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