How to Crop Margins From a PDF
Published September 3, 2026 · 3 min read
Scanned documents often come with wide, uneven margins, and some PDFs are exported with more white space than you'd like. Cropping trims that away uniformly across every page, tightening up the layout without touching the actual content.
Try Crop PDFSteps
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Open the Crop PDF tool
Go to the PDF cropper.
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Upload your PDF
Choose the document you want to trim.
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Set the crop margins
Enter how much to trim from the top, bottom, left and right, or choose which pages to apply it to.
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Download the cropped PDF
Every selected page is trimmed to the new dimensions.
Frequently asked questions
The crop amount is entirely up to you — set conservative values and preview the result before committing to more aggressive trimming.
Yes — specify a page range if only certain pages have the excess margin you want removed.
No — cropping trims away part of the existing page; the Resize PDF Pages tool instead scales the whole page to a new size like A4 or Letter.
Because cropping only changes the visible page boundary, the underlying text and images are preserved at full quality.