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Crop a PDF

Drag a frame on the page to set the crop, or let the white margins be detected. Several documents at once, to the same measurements.

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Open Crop a PDF and you get an answer straight away, with no account to create. Its place is under PDF; Compress PDF and Delete PDF pages answer the questions closest to this one.

How to use it

  1. Open the tool — no signup or install needed.
  2. Enter your input or adjust the available options.
  3. Get your result instantly, then copy or download it.

Frequently asked questions

What does Crop a PDF do?

Drag a frame on the page to set the crop, or let the white margins be detected. Several documents at once, to the same measurements.

When would I actually use this?

Getting a document into the shape someone asked for: merging attachments into one file, pulling out the pages that matter, rotating a bad scan, or signing before sending back.

What is the most common mistake?

Drawing a black box over text to redact it. The characters are still in the file underneath and can be selected and copied — removing them means deleting the content, not covering it.

How is Crop a PDF different from Compress PDF?

They sit next to each other but answer different questions: Compress PDF is the one to open when you need it to shrink a PDF without losing anything: identical fonts and images repeated by a merge are merged back into one. A whole folder at once. Pick whichever matches what you're starting from — both are free.

Is there a tool for the next step?

Delete PDF pages is the closest one after this: Remove the pages you name and keep everything else, without re-scanning the document.

What else is worth having open alongside it?

Extract links from a PDF and Extract PDF pages — they come up in the same task often enough to be worth a second tab.

Where do the figures come from?

The working copy lives only as long as the tab does: nothing is kept between visits, and nothing can be recovered once you close it. Save the output before you leave, and keep the original until you have checked the result.

Further reading

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How-toPhotographing a Document and Getting a PDF That Is AcceptedNobody owns a scanner any more, so the phone does it. Two things decide whether the result is accepted: how you took the photograph, and what page size it becomes. The second one surprises people, because a photograph turned into a PDF is not A4 unless something makes it A4.How-toMerging an Application Pack into One PDF, in the Right OrderA rental file, a loan application, a tender: the requester wants one document, in the order they listed. The merge itself takes seconds. What goes wrong is the ordering, the page sizes and the file that silently loses its signature — all of which are avoidable if you know where they bite.How-toTurning a PDF into Images When a Site Refuses PDFsMarketplaces, job boards and support forms often accept JPEG and PNG and nothing else. Converting is easy; choosing the resolution is the part that decides whether the recipient can read your document, and it is the part every tool asks you about and nobody explains.How-toGetting a PDF Under a 10 MB Upload LimitThe form rejects your file and offers no advice. What works depends entirely on where the megabytes actually are, and for a scanned document the answer is not compression at all — it is resolution. Here is how to tell which case you have in ten seconds.How-toExtracting a Few Pages from a Statement Without Installing AnythingA landlord wants page 3. An accountant wants January. You need to send those pages and not the eleven others, and there is a trap: the obvious way leaves the removed pages inside the file you send.How-toPutting a Scanned Document Back in the Order It Was PrintedA duplex scanner that took one side at a time, a stack fed upside down, a page that came out twice. Reordering is not the same operation as extracting pages, and knowing which one you are doing tells you what happens to everything that is not a page.