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Crop PDF

Crop PDF pages to a smaller visible area, for example to trim wide margins from a scan. Choose the pages and the edges to cut.

Synthetic example — review the operation settings before running.

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Local limits: Max single file: 60 MB

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A practical guide

Trim the margins you do not want to see.

  1. Add the PDF and choose the pages to crop.
  2. Set how much to cut from each edge.
  3. Run the task and look at the cropped pages.

Try this example

A scan has a grey shadow along the left side of all 12 pages. Crop five percent from the left edge and the shadow is outside the visible page.

Before

  • Page + margins

After

  • Smaller visible area
Input and expected output for this task. Illustrative example.

Before you start: Cropping hides the cut area, but the content can remain in the file. It is not a way to remove private information.

Inspect the visible page area
What you get

Adjust the visible area of selected pages. Cropping does not securely remove hidden content.

Limits and important details

Layout: 10 MiB, all source pages up to 200, 40 MiB output; split can produce 400 pages. No unusual page units. Links are kept; comments and form fields are imprinted or removed, as you choose; signed PDFs and XFA forms are refused. Document metadata/bookmarks are not preserved. Split and crop clip visibility, not securely remove hidden content. Marks are not redaction or editable comments: one per run on up to 500 pages, Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese or Korean text up to 300 characters. Forms: 10 MiB, 200 pages, 100 plain single-line text, checkbox, dropdown or radio fields; no XFA, signatures or scripts. Appearances may change. Not PDF sanitization.

Example

Remove 5 percent of the visible left margin. This changes visibility, not the underlying content.