Crop PDF
Trim margins and crop the visible area of PDF pages.
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Crop PDF pages and cut away wasted margins
Crop PDF trims the visible area of your pages — slice off oversized white margins, scanner black edges, or surrounding clutter so the actual content fills the page. Drag a crop box over the region to keep, apply it to every page, and download a tighter, cleaner document that reads beautifully on tablets and e-readers where wasted margins shrink the text.
Small crop, big readability win
Academic papers and scans often waste 30% of the page on margins; on a phone or e-reader that pushes the real text below comfortable reading size. Cropping reclaims that space instantly. The crop is applied in your browser — private, free and reversible (your original file is untouched).
How to crop pdf online
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Upload your PDF.
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Drag the crop box over the area to keep.
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Download the cropped PDF.
Why use Codesala's free crop pdf tool
Drag exactly the region you want to keep.
One crop, uniformly applied document-wide.
Bigger effective text on small screens.
Remove black borders and hole-punch shadows.
Local processing; content quality unchanged.
No signup, no watermark.
Popular ways people use Crop PDF
- → Trim huge margins from academic papers for tablet reading
- → Remove black scanner borders from old documents
- → Crop a single form out of a larger page
- → Tighten slides exported with wasteful padding
- → Prepare pages for consistent print layouts
Crop PDF — frequently asked questions
Does cropping delete content? ＋
It hides the trimmed area from view; the visible region is what remains.
Does cropping permanently delete the trimmed content? ＋
Cropping sets the visible page area. The trimmed region is hidden from view and print in every standard viewer.
Can I crop each page differently? ＋
The tool applies one crop box to all pages for consistency — run it twice on split files if sections need different crops.
Why crop a PDF for Kindle or tablets? ＋
Removing margins makes the content area larger, so text displays bigger and sharper without zooming.
Your files stay yours
Crop PDF runs 100% inside your browser — your document is never uploaded to any server, which makes it one of the most private ways to work with PDFs online. All Codesala PDF tools are free, with no signup, no watermarks and no file limits.
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