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Crop PDF
Trim PDF pages and remove white margins — free, unlimited and private. Drag a crop box over the live preview, let the tool find the content for you, or type exact millimetre trims. Your file never leaves your device.
- 100% free, no sign-up
- No watermark
- Files never uploaded
- Visual editor + auto-crop
Drag & drop your PDF here
or click to browse — one PDF at a time
Choose a PDF filePrivate by design: cropping runs 100% in your browser. Your file is never uploaded to a server — nothing leaves this device.
Drag the box to move it · drag the orange handles to resize · drag on the dimmed area to draw a new box.
Finds the actual content on the page and hugs the crop box around it — the fastest fix for scanner borders and fat ebook margins.
One shared box keeps every page the same size — best for books and slide decks. Per-page boxes hug each page individually.
The header & footer preset strips the letterhead row at the top and the page-number / watermark row at the bottom of scanned pages.
Typing updates the visual box, and dragging the box updates these numbers — they always agree. Trims are measured from each page's own edges.
Pages outside the range keep their original size.
Cropping…
How to crop a PDF
Three steps, no accounts and no software to install. This free PDF cropper works the same on a laptop, tablet or phone.
Add your PDF
Drag and drop your file into the box above, or click to browse. The first page opens in the visual editor, with its size and page count shown so you know what you're working with.
Draw the crop
Drag the box and its handles over the live preview — or press Remove white margins and let the tool hug the content for you. Fine-tune with exact millimetre trims, then choose all pages, one page, or a range.
Download the cropped PDF
Press Crop PDF. Pages are copied exactly — text, images and quality untouched — with the new page area set to your box. Pages outside your scope keep their original size.
Why crop PDFs with All Tools Max?
Most online PDF croppers upload your documents to their servers, cap your free files, or stamp the result. This one doesn't — and won't.
Completely free & unlimited
Crop as many PDFs as you want, as often as you want. No daily caps, no page-count limits for "free users", no pro version hiding the good settings.
Private — file never uploaded
The cropping happens on your own device with JavaScript. Contracts, payslips, ID scans and medical letters stay exactly where they belong: with you.
Visual editor + smart auto-crop
See exactly what will remain before you commit: drag the box over a real preview of your page, watch the size readout in points and millimetres, or let auto-crop find the content edges on every page at once.
No sign-up, ever
No email address, no account, no newsletter trap. Open the page, crop your PDF, download, done.
Common reasons to trim a PDF's pages
- Remove scanner borders — flatbed and feeder scanners love adding a white (or grey) frame around every page. Auto-crop cuts straight to the paper's real content.
- Cut headers and footers — letterheads, "scanned with…" rows, page-number strips and footer watermarks sit in the same place on every page; the 8% preset strips them in one go.
- Trim ebook margins for e-readers — publisher PDFs waste a third of a small e-reader screen on white margin. One shared auto-crop box makes the text fill the screen and read far bigger.
- Clean up slides exported as PDF — exported decks often carry a border or a stray footer line. Crop it away so the slides print and present edge-to-edge.
- Cut a page down to a form or table — crop to just the region that matters before printing, so the important part comes out large instead of lost in a full page.
- Fix one odd page — a single mis-scanned page in an otherwise clean document: crop "this page only" and leave the rest of the document exactly as it was.
Tips for a clean, even crop
- Use one shared box for books and decks. Under Auto-crop, choose "All pages · one shared box" so every page ends up the exact same size — per-page boxes hug tighter, but pages that change size look ragged in a reader.
- Keep a little breathing room. A padding of 6 pt (about 2 mm) stops text from kissing the edge of the page, which looks better on screen and survives home-printer margins. Use 12 pt if the document will be printed.
- Check a few pages before applying. Flip through with Prev / Next — a stamp, signature or page number sometimes sits lower than the body text, and the preview is the cheapest way to catch it.
- Cropping won't shrink the file much. It changes the page area, not the data inside — so a cropped PDF is usually about the same size as the original. If file size is the problem, run it through Compress PDF afterwards.
- Only some pages misbehave? Crop a range. Apply to "1-3, 5" and leave the good pages untouched — there's no rule that a whole document needs the same trim.
Crop PDF — frequently asked questions
Is this Crop PDF tool really free?
Yes. Crop as many PDFs as you like, as often as you like — no sign-up, no watermark, no trial limits and no page-count caps. The tool is completely free.
Is my PDF file uploaded to a server?
No. Cropping happens entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Your file never leaves your device, nothing is sent to or stored on a server, and closing the tab removes everything.
Does cropping delete the trimmed content permanently?
Honestly: no — and that is true of every standard PDF cropper, including Acrobat. Cropping sets the visible page area (the crop box): the trimmed edges are hidden from view and from printing, but the underlying content can still exist inside the file and may be recoverable. That is perfect for tidying margins, scans and slides. If you need content irreversibly removed — a signature, an address, personal data — you need a redaction tool, not a cropper, and you should not share a merely-cropped file as if the content were gone.
Will cropping reduce the quality of my PDF?
No. Your pages are copied exactly as they are — text stays sharp and selectable, images keep their original resolution, links keep working. Only the page boxes change: the tool sets the crop box (and matches the media box) to the area you chose. Nothing is re-rendered or re-compressed, so there is no quality loss at all.
Can I crop just one page, or a range of pages?
Yes. Under Apply to, choose All pages, This page only, or Page range and type something like 1-3, 5. Pages outside the scope keep their original size and are copied into the new file unchanged — useful when only the scanned pages of a document carry fat borders, or one page needs a different trim.
Can I crop a PDF on my phone?
Yes. The visual editor works with touch: drag the crop box to move it and pull the corner handles to resize. For very fine adjustments, the millimetre inputs under the preview are easier on a small screen. The cropped file downloads straight to your device.