Is cropping the same as redacting?

No. Cropping hides the area outside the box but the content is still in the file. Don't use it to hide sensitive information.

No. The crop tool runs entirely in your browser — your PDF never leaves your device.

Can I undo a crop later?

Keep your original file and you can always re-crop from it. The downloaded copy keeps the cropped view.

How to crop a PDF

Big white margins waste screen space on e-readers, break layouts when you embed a page, and shrink the content when you print handouts. Cropping trims the page down to the part that matters — either the same crop on every page or a selection you draw yourself.

Open Crop PDF

Step by step

1Open the Crop PDF tool and drop your file in.
2Drag the crop box over the area you want to keep, or apply an automatic margin trim to all pages.
3Download the cropped PDF.

Crop one page or every page

For a scanned book or consistent report, one crop box applied to all pages is what you want — set it once and the whole document tightens up.

For mixed content (a landscape chart in a portrait report, say), crop pages individually so you don't cut off the wide pages while trimming the narrow ones.

Cropping hides, it doesn't delete

PDF cropping works by adjusting the page's visible box; the content outside the crop is hidden, not removed from the file. For reading, printing, and embedding, that's exactly what you want.

It also means cropping is not redaction: someone with the right tool can restore the page box and see what was outside it. Never crop to hide sensitive information — remove it instead.

FAQ

Is cropping the same as redacting?: No. Cropping hides the area outside the box but the content is still in the file. Don't use it to hide sensitive information.
Is my file uploaded?: No. The crop tool runs entirely in your browser — your PDF never leaves your device.
Can I undo a crop later?: Keep your original file and you can always re-crop from it. The downloaded copy keeps the cropped view.

Ready? Open Crop PDF →