How to Crop a PDF Document
Trim margins and resize page bounds in 3 simple steps.
Upload Your PDF File
Select your scanned document, slide presentation, or invoice and drop it into the cropper above.
Adjust Crop Boundaries
Drag the visual framing box over your page content to trim away headers, margins, or empty gutters.
Download Cropped PDF
Apply the crop box to the current page or all pages simultaneously and download your clean document.
The Best Online PDF Cropper
Intuitive visual framing handles, multi-page batch trimming, instant preview, and lossless MediaBox coordinate adjustment.
Visual Interactive Cropping
Drag intuitive corner handles to define exact crop coordinates visually in real time.
Batch Crop All Pages
Define a crop frame once and apply it across every page in your presentation or book.
Eliminate Printer Ink Waste
Trim away dark scanner edges and excessive empty space to save printer toner and ink.
100% Free with No Limits
Crop unlimited PDF files with zero monthly subscriptions, watermarks, or credit card requirements.
Encrypted & Auto-Deleted
All transmissions are encrypted via SSL/TLS. Files are processed securely and deleted immediately after your session.
Works Across All Devices
Crop documents smoothly on iPad, iPhone, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux browsers.
Lossless CropBox Geometry & Vector Retention
PDF Maya modifies visible page box coordinates without re-compressing or rasterizing underlying page content.
Standard CropBox & MediaBox Updating
Recalculates standard ISO viewport parameters so PDF readers and printing software honor the new boundary dimensions.
Zero Resolution Loss
Vectors, embedded high-resolution photography, and digital text layers retain 100% of their original clarity and crispness.
Uniform Multi-Page Application
Apply consistent margin crops across hundreds of pages in scanned book chapters, manuals, or presentation slides.
Mobile-Friendly Reading Layout
Eliminating excessive white borders allows text to scale up larger and fill small smartphone and e-reader screens.
Practical PDF Cropping Use Cases
Clean up margins across academic, administrative, personal, and publishing workflows.
Scanned Receipts & Bills
Crop out messy scanner flatbed edges and shadows from digitized utility receipts, tickets, and notes.
Slide Presentations & Pitch Decks
Trim away widescreen slide margins for clean embedding inside PDF report portfolios and book chapters.
Academic Papers & Articles
Isolate specific figures, equations, or research tables to share as clean, high-resolution PDF snippets.
Mobile Screen Optimization
Crop out huge white page gutters so documents fill mobile phone screens with larger, readable text.
Your Documents Stay Private & Secure
We prioritize document confidentiality and data privacy across all cropping operations.
256-Bit SSL/TLS
All transmissions are secured with end-to-end HTTPS encryption.
Instant File Deletion
Uploaded PDFs and cropped outputs are purged automatically from memory.
No Account Needed
Crop unlimited files without registration, emails, or paywalls.
Universal Support
Works seamlessly in any browser on macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about cropping PDF pages online.
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