Crop PDF Online
Trim unwanted margins and crop PDF pages with an interactive visual crop tool. Apply to one page or the entire document with lossless quality.
Crop Controls
Interactive Visual Marquee
Drag and resize crop boxes with 8 interactive grab handles directly over your document canvas.
Selective Page Scope
Apply uniform margin cuts across every page or target specific individual sheets in your PDF.
100% Lossless Vector Quality
Adjusts PDF CropBox and MediaBox bounds natively without rasterizing or degrading text sharpness.
Zero Server Uploads
Documents remain strictly confidential on your machine. All PDF trimming is done in your browser.
How Does Cropping a PDF Work?
Unlike image cropping which permanently deletes surrounding pixels, standard PDF cropping adjusts the document's MediaBox and CropBox viewing parameters. This instructs PDF viewers (like Adobe Acrobat, Apple Preview, and web browsers) to display and print only the designated area.
Benefits of cropping PDF documents:
- Removing Unwanted White Margins: Perfect for reading scanned academic articles or eBooks on tablets and mobile screens.
- Trimming Printer Marks: Eliminate crop marks, color calibration bars, and bleed zones before distributing presentations.
- Splitting Multi-Column Content: Focus attention strictly on specific tables, charts, or diagram segments.