Editing PDF Tool

Free online tool by DocsBolt

Crop PDF Pages

Trim the edges of PDF pages: the black border a scanner adds, a margin that wastes half the screen on a phone, or a running header you do not want in a hand-out.

Crop PDF pages free online. Trim millimetres from any edge to remove scanner borders, wide margins or a header — apply to all pages or a range, no signup.

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What this tool includes

Trim each edge in millimetres
All pages or a page range
Non-destructive — the original page area is kept in the file

Output

Cropped PDF

Accepts: .pdf

Crop PDF

Upload your file, choose any optional settings, and download the result.

Supported: .pdf. Output: Cropped PDF. Up to 200 MB per file.

Leave empty to crop every page.

Workflow

01

Upload the PDF

Choose the file with margins or borders to remove.

02

Enter the trim

How many millimetres to cut from the top, bottom, left and right.

03

Download

Viewers show only the cropped area.

FAQ

How do I know how many millimetres to trim?

A4 is 210 × 297 mm and US Letter is 216 × 279 mm. A typical Word margin is 25 mm, so trimming 15 mm from each side removes most of the white space without touching text.

Is the crop permanent?

The crop sets the visible area of each page. The full page is still stored underneath, so a PDF editor can undo it. If you need the cut to be irreversible, print the cropped PDF to a new PDF.

Can I crop just one page?

Yes. Enter a page range such as 1 or 3-5 and the other pages are left untouched.

Can I crop to a specific size, like exactly A5?

Work out the trim from the difference. An A4 page is 210 × 297 mm; to end up at A5 landscape (210 × 148 mm) trim 149 mm from the bottom and nothing else.

Will cropping reduce the file size?

No. The full page content is still in the file — only the displayed area changes. To shrink the file, use Compress PDF after cropping.

What if my pages are different sizes?

The same trim is applied to every selected page, measured from each page's own edges. If a document mixes portrait and landscape pages, crop them in two passes with a page range for each.

About Crop PDF

Cropping fixes two very different problems. The first is the scanner: a page scanned with the lid open comes back with a dark border, a shadow down one side, or the edge of the next sheet, and trimming ten or fifteen millimetres from each edge removes all of it. The second is the screen: a report set with generous print margins wastes a third of a phone display, and trimming those margins makes the text large enough to read without pinching. The trim is entered in millimetres from each edge because that is how people think about paper; it is applied by setting each page's visible area, which every viewer respects and which a PDF editor can still undo.

What you get with Crop PDF

  • Trim each edge in millimetres
  • All pages or a page range
  • Non-destructive — the original page area is kept in the file

Crop PDF at a glance

Input formats
.pdf
Output format
Cropped PDF
Batch upload
One file at a time