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How to crop a PDF online

Trim extra margins or scanner edges from a PDF without wrecking the page. Free crop tool. No account. Files are deleted after you leave.

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Crop vs compress

Cropping cuts pixels and white space off the page. Compressing shrinks file size. If the problem is a thick black scanner border or a huge margin, crop first. If the file is just too large for email, compress after.

Step-by-step: crop a PDF

  1. Open Crop PDF on LitePDF Pro.
  2. Upload the PDF.
  3. Set how much to trim from the edges.
  4. Download the cropped file and check one page at 100% zoom.
  5. If text looks tight, crop less and try again from the original.