Crop PDF trims margins or a specific area from every page — used to remove scanner borders, cut down oversized page sizes for printing, or isolate a chart region across a whole report.
Pull the handles in to mark the area you want to keep, with a live preview of the margins.
Apply the same crop to all pages, to odd or even pages, or to a page range.
Hidden areas can be restored later by cropping again, because nothing is deleted.
Content outside the crop box is hidden from view, not removed. That's why you can adjust the crop again later.
To remove confidential text for good, use Redact — cropped-out content can still be recovered.
Because hidden content stays in the file, cropping rarely makes the PDF much smaller. Use File Compressor for that.
Office staff crop excess white space from bulk book scans to reduce file size and improve readability.
Marketing teams crop printed-and-rescanned PDFs to remove letterhead and footers for republishing.
Analysts crop PDF pages to isolate a specific chart for embedding in a presentation.
No — content is hidden from view, not deleted, so the crop can be adjusted again later.
Yes. Apply the same crop box to all pages, or to odd/even pages only, or to a specific page range.
Yes on Pro plans. Edit individual page crops one by one — useful when scans have varying margin sizes.
Slightly — the crop reduces the visible area, but underlying content remains embedded. For real size reduction, use our Compress tool after cropping.
Pro accounts get auto-margin detection that finds white space and suggests an optimal crop. Free accounts use manual drag.
No. After cropping, page dimensions shrink to fit the new visible area. Use "Resize to original" to pad with white margins if needed.
Yes — 30 crop operations per day for guests. Free accounts get higher limits and saved crop presets.
No. PDFPilot4U never watermarks cropped PDFs on any plan.
