Trim a margin from every page of a PDF by setting the CropBox, so viewers and printers show only the area you want.
Cropping sets the CropBox, which tells viewers and printers which area to show. The page content outside the box is still in the file. For a privacy-sensitive redaction, use the redact tool instead.
Choose a PDF to crop.
The cropped PDF appears here after processing.
Your file is never sent to a server. It is read and processed by your own browser, and the results are not stored.
A PDF page has a MediaBox, which is the full page, and a CropBox, which is the region viewers and printers are asked to show. This tool changes only the CropBox, so the page dimensions a tool reports may not change even though the visible area does.
That distinction is why cropping is reversible and why it is not a deletion. A viewer that ignores the CropBox, or a tool that reads the MediaBox, still sees the whole page.
Cropping is useful for removing scanner margins, for fitting a page to a different aspect ratio, and for focusing a print on the content area. It is fast because it changes a number rather than rewriting content.
Cropping is the wrong step for removing sensitive information, because the content remains in the file. To remove content, delete the pages or use a tool that rewrites the content stream.
No. Crop PDF Pages runs in your browser, and the file is read there rather than sent to a server for processing. Our host still sees ordinary page-request metadata, which is described on the privacy page.
Yes, Crop PDF Pages is free, with no paid tier, no account, and no watermark added to your output. The limits are technical rather than commercial: file size, page count and supported formats are listed on this page.
Crop PDF Pages supports .pdf files up to 25MB directly in your browser.
No. Cropping sets the CropBox, which tells viewers and printers which rectangle to display. The content outside it is still in the file. For removing content, delete the pages with the page tools or use a tool that rewrites the content stream.
PDF coordinates are in points (1/72 inch). Entering points avoids a conversion the tool would have to guess at, and it matches what a viewer reports when you measure the page.
This tool applies the same trim to every page, which is the common case for scanned documents with uniform margins. Per-page crop boxes would need a page picker and are not offered here.