Crop a PDF online free — drag the handles on the live page preview to trim margins, then click Crop PDF. Crop every page at once or edit pages individually. Everything runs locally in your browser; your file is never uploaded and is gone when you close the tab.
Crop PDF
Drag crop handles on a live page preview to trim margins. Crop all pages uniformly or per page.
Quick answer
Crop PDF online free — trim the visible page area of a document by dragging crop handles on a live rendered preview. Choose to apply the same margins to every page or fine-tune individual pages, then download the result instantly. All cropping happens locally in your browser with pdf-lib and pdf.js, so your file never leaves your device and no quality is lost: content is never re-encoded.
Drag & drop a PDF here
or click to browse files
PDF files only — up to 20MB each
How to crop a PDF online
Cropping trims the visible page area so that margins, headers or stamps get dropped from the output — without touching the underlying text, images or vector detail. Everything happens locally in your browser with pdf-lib and pdf.js, so your document never leaves your device.
Add your PDF
Drag and drop a PDF file onto the tool, or click to browse. Only one document is needed per crop operation.
Set the crop area
Drag the corner and edge handles on the live page preview to define the visible area. Use the numeric inputs for exact margins in points.
Crop all or per page
Choose Crop all pages uniformly to apply one margin to every page, or Crop per page to fine-tune individual pages as you flip through them.
Crop and download
Click Crop PDF and the cropped document is built right in your browser — usually in a couple of seconds — then saved to your device.
When cropping a PDF comes in handy
Scan cleanup
Remove the black or white borders around phone-scanned documents so they look clean when printed or shared.
Printing
Trim excessive margins so a PDF fits more comfortably on paper and wastes less toner.
Publishing
Crop awkward whitespace or stray headers/footers from a submitted report without re-exporting from the original app.
Key features
Visual drag handles
Eight corner and edge handles on a live page preview give pixel-accurate control over the crop area.
All pages or per page
Apply identical margins to every page, or switch to per-page mode and crop individual pages independently.
Lossless output
Cropping only updates each page's CropBox metadata, so text, images and vectors stay untouched — no quality loss.
Supported formats
- Input: PDF file (.pdf)
- Output: a standard PDF (.pdf) with each page's CropBox narrowed to the selected margins
Privacy and security
Limitations
- One PDF per operation; very large documents are limited by your device's available memory.
- Password-protected PDFs can be cropped only if you can open them.
- Cropping changes the visible printable area but does not rescale page content.
- Form fields and annotations inherit the new CropBox; some may shift near the cropped edge.
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How do I crop a PDF online?
Upload your PDF, drag the crop handles on the page preview to trim the margins you want removed, then click Crop PDF. The cropped file builds in your browser and downloads instantly.
Can I crop every page at once?
Yes — choose Crop all pages uniformly and the margins you set are applied to every page in the document.
Can I crop only some pages?
Yes — switch to Crop per page and use the page arrows to move between pages. Each page keeps its own crop settings.
Will cropping reduce my PDF quality?
No. Cropping only adjusts each page's CropBox metadata — the original page content (text, images, vectors) is never re-encoded, so quality is unchanged.
Is my PDF uploaded to a server?
No. All cropping runs locally in your browser with pdf-lib and pdf.js. Your file is never uploaded or stored — close the tab and it is gone.