Crop PDF Margins & Whitespace
Free & private · no signup · no watermarks · files deleted in 1 hour
Need to remove unwanted margins, borders, or white space from PDF pages? Our Crop PDF tool adjusts the visible page boundaries of your PDF by trimming the specified amount from each edge — top, bottom, left, and right — uniformly across all pages. The content within the crop area is preserved at full quality; only the surrounding space is removed from the page dimensions.
This is commonly used to strip oversized margins from scanned documents, remove the header and footer bands from PDF exports, trim white space before printing business cards or labels, and resize pages to a specific dimension for consistent display. The crop values you enter are applied in points, giving you precise control over the final page size.
Key features: Trim top, bottom, left, and right margins • Applied uniformly across all pages • Content within crop area fully preserved • Precise point-based measurements • Supports PDFs up to 100MB • No watermarks or registration
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Supports: PDF • Max file size: 100MB • Unlimited files
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How to Crop PDF Online — Step by Step
Complete in under 2 minutes. No software, no registration, 100% free.
Upload your PDF
Select or drag in the PDF you want to crop.
Set crop margins
Enter the amount to trim from each edge in points: top, bottom, left, right. Applied uniformly to all pages.
Click Crop PDF
The page boundaries are adjusted. Content within the crop area is preserved at full quality.
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Save the trimmed PDF. For permanent content removal, use the Redact PDF tool instead.
Frequently Asked Questions About Crop PDF
Everything you need to know about our Crop PDF tool
Yes, completely free. Our Crop PDF tool has no hidden costs, no watermarks, and no registration requirement. You can process as many files as you need, each up to 100MB, at no charge. We believe professional PDF tools should be accessible to everyone — students, freelancers, and businesses alike.
Your files are fully protected. All uploads and downloads use 256-bit SSL/TLS encryption during transfer. Processing happens on our isolated Hetzner server infrastructure in Germany — your file is never shared, analysed for commercial purposes, or stored longer than necessary. Every uploaded and processed file is automatically and permanently deleted within one hour of processing.
Supported file types: This tool accepts PDF files up to 100MB each. For files larger than 100MB, use our Compress PDF tool first.
Portable Document Format
Yes — works on any device. The interface is fully responsive and tested on desktop, tablet, and mobile. Touch-friendly upload areas, drag-and-drop support on desktop, and mobile-optimised buttons mean you get the same experience whether you are on a MacBook, an iPad, or an Android phone. No app download is ever required — open your browser and go.
In standard PDF cropping, the content outside the crop box is hidden but technically still present in the file. Our tool applies the crop by updating the PDF MediaBox — the standard PDF approach — which means the hidden content could theoretically be recovered with advanced PDF tools. For content you need permanently removed (sensitive data, confidential markings), use our Redact PDF tool instead, which irreversibly deletes the underlying content from the file structure.
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