Crop PDF: Trim Margins from Pages

Cut away white margins, scanner borders or headers. Enter how many millimetres to remove from each side, check the shaded preview and save a PDF with the visible area trimmed.

Shaded areas are removed. Content outside the crop stays hidden inside the file, so do not use this to hide sensitive data. Use Redact PDF for that.

How to use it

  1. Choose a PDF. The first page shows as a preview.
  2. Enter the margins to remove and, optionally, which pages.
  3. Press Crop PDF and download.

Example

Remove 15 mm from every edge of a scanned book page to hide the dark scanner border.

Benefits

  • Live shaded preview of the area that will be removed.
  • Works on rotated pages: margins always refer to the sides you see.
  • Text stays selectable.

Limitations

  • The cropped-away content is hidden, not deleted. It can be recovered, so never use cropping to hide sensitive data.
  • The preview uses the first page, so uneven scans may need different margins.

Frequently asked questions

How do I truly remove content?

Use Redact PDF, which converts the page to an image with the area blacked out.

Can I crop different pages differently?

Run the tool once per page range.

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