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.
Scanned certificates arrive with most of the page empty
A marksheet or caste certificate scanned at a CSC or cyber cafe is placed on a full A4 bed, so the file you get back is a small document floating in a wide grey border. Application portals show that border at full size, and a scrutiny officer sees a document that looks like an afterthought. Drag across the certificate itself and the rest goes.
It cuts the file size at the same time
Those margins are stored data like anything else. Cropping to the document alone is often the single biggest reduction available before you touch compression at all — useful when a form caps the upload and the scan is several times over it. If it is still too large, Compress PDF takes it to an exact KB target.
What people crop most
- Marksheets and degree certificates for college, scholarship and job applications.
- Caste, income, domicile and EWS certificates, which are usually issued on a part-page format and scanned onto full A4.
- Bank passbook pages, where only the page with the account details is wanted.
- Phone photographs of a document that caught the table, the floor or your hand.
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.