Crop PDF
Remove unwanted margins or crop to specific areas
Drop PDF here
or select a file from your device
Supported: .pdf
Drag the blue box to choose the area to keep. Resize from corners.
Crop Notes
Cropping removes unwanted outer areas of PDF pages, focusing on the important content.
- Remove white margins
- Focus on specific content
- Standardize page sizes
- Prepare for printing
Crop PDF Pages Online — Complete Guide
Remove unwanted margins, scanner edges, and background clutter from PDF pages. PdfPeaks crops the visible page area so documents look cleaner in presentations, OCR pipelines, and print output.
How It Works
Upload the PDF, define the crop region on the preview (or apply uniform margins), and save. Each page can be cropped to the same box or adjusted individually depending on the interface. Download the trimmed PDF when satisfied.
- Step 1 — Upload: Add scans or PDFs with extra border space.
- Step 2 — Crop: Set margins or drag crop handles on the preview.
- Step 3 — Download: Save the tighter PDF layout.
Security & Privacy
Files are encrypted in transit and deleted after processing — see our Privacy Policy for details.
Common Use Cases
- Scans: Remove black scanner bed borders from phone photos.
- Slides: Trim exported PDF slides to content area.
- OCR prep: Improve text recognition by removing noise margins.
- Print: Reduce white space - save ink on bulk printing.
- Archival: Normalize mixed scan sizes in one document.
Tips for Best Results
After cropping scanned docs, run Make PDF Searchable for better text selection. Supported format: PDF (.pdf).