Key takeaways
- Crop PDF trims the visible area of the page.
- Apply the same crop to all pages or only to the first page.
- Cropping margins makes documents easier to read on phones and e-readers.
- For crooked scans, re-scanning with auto-crop gives better results.
Academic papers with huge margins, scans with black borders, a single chart you want from a page — cropping helps in all of these cases.
How to crop a PDF
- Open Crop PDF and add your file.
- Drag the crop frame to the area you want to keep.
- Choose whether to apply it to all pages (same relative area) or only the first page.
- Download the cropped PDF.
Read more comfortably on your phone
Wide margins make text tiny on a phone. Cropping them lets the text fill the screen — much easier for long reading.
Clean up scan borders
Dark edges from a flatbed scanner or copier look unprofessional. Crop them away. For phone scans, Scan to PDF already crops to the page edges automatically.
Extract a figure or table
Crop to the figure, then convert the page to an image with PDF to JPG for slides or reports.
Private cropping
Everything happens in your browser, and your document is never uploaded.
Frequently asked questions
Does cropping delete the hidden content?
Cropping changes the visible area. To permanently remove sensitive content, use Redact PDF instead.
Can I crop pages differently?
The same relative area can apply to all pages, or the crop can apply to the first page only.
Why crop margins?
Wide margins waste space on small screens. Cropping them makes text appear larger.
Can I crop a scanned page that's tilted?
Crop is rectangular. For tilted scans, use Scan to PDF, which corrects perspective.