Trim the white space off a PDF
Scans come with wide dead margins; slides come with borders you don't want; a phone photo of a page catches half the desk. Drag over the region worth keeping and the rest is trimmed away.
It is lossless. The crop is applied by changing the page's crop box, not by flattening the page into a picture — so the text remains selectable text and nothing is re-compressed. A cropped page is as sharp as the original.
Who uses this tool
People tidying scanned documents before an upload, students trimming lecture slides for printing, and anyone cutting the dead space out of a photographed page.
How to crop a PDF
- Choose your PDF — the first page appears.
- Drag across the area to keep. Everything outside it dims.
- Pick whether to apply it to every page, then click Crop & download.
Applying one crop to every page works when the pages share a layout — which scanned documents usually do. If yours vary, crop the first page only, or use the Document Scanner, which auto-detects each page's edges.
Frequently asked questions
How do I crop a PDF?
Drag over the part you want to keep, choose the scope, and download.
Does it lose quality?
No — the crop box is changed, not the page content. Text stays text.
Can I crop all pages at once?
Yes, choose "Every page".
Is my PDF uploaded?
No. Everything happens in your browser.