Crop PDF
Drag a box over what you want to keep — the crop applies to every page. Visual, instant, and never uploaded.
Choose a PDF
or drop files here
▚ files open locally — nothing is uploaded
- 01Open a PDF — page 1 renders locally as your cropping canvas.
- 02Drag a rectangle over the area to keep; the excluded area dims.
- 03Click Crop. The box is applied proportionally to all pages and the file downloads.
Bad margins are the tax every scanner and export dialog charges: a third of the page is empty border, the text is small on a tablet, and printing wastes paper reproducing nothing. Cropping fixes it once for the whole document.
Doing it visually matters — margins are something you see, not something you measure in millimeters. Draw the box, check the dimmed preview, apply. And one honest caveat other tools bury: cropping hides, it doesn't erase. For content that must genuinely disappear, whiteout in the Edit tool is the right instrument.
How does the crop box work?+
Drag a rectangle over the area you want to keep — everything outside it is dimmed so you see exactly what survives. The same box, proportionally, is applied to every page of the document.
Is cropping destructive?+
The crop sets the page boundaries to your box, so viewers and printers show only the kept area. Your original file stays untouched on disk. Note that cropped-away content is outside the visible page but technically still in the file — for true redaction of sensitive content, use whiteout in the Edit PDF tool instead.
What is cropping useful for?+
Cutting oversized scanner margins, trimming a PDF to its content for e-readers, removing letterhead bands before reuse, or tightening slides that were exported with heavy padding.
Is the document uploaded?+
No. The preview render, the crop box and the rebuilt file all happen in your browser.