Crop PDFs on your computer

Drag a crop box over the preview and apply it to every page. Free, unlimited, and no file ever gets uploaded to a server.

100% private: everything runs on your computer, your files never leave your device.

  1. Upload your PDF - it opens locally on your computer
  2. Drag the edges to adjust the visible area
  3. Download the cropped PDF

What Crop PDF does

Crop PDF trims the visible area of every page in a document. You drag a box over a preview of the page and OléPDF applies the same proportions to all the pages, so wide scanner margins, printer marks or an unwanted sidebar disappear from what readers see. The whole operation happens in your browser, which is why there is no upload, no waiting for a server and no file size ceiling other than your device's memory.

It is a visual tool for practical situations: a scanned book with a dark edge, a slide deck exported with excess white space, an invoice you want to fit into a slot on a printed page, or a PDF whose margins make the text look tiny on a phone. It is not a page editor and it does not move or delete objects; it only changes the frame through which each page is displayed.

How to crop a PDF

  1. Add your PDF. A single file opens the crop screen straight away; if you add several, they are staged first and the same crop is applied to each one.
  2. Use the page arrows to look through the document. This is a preview only: the crop you draw applies to every page.
  3. Drag the edges or corners of the box over the preview until only the area you want remains. The box cannot shrink below 15 percent of the page width or height.
  4. Press Reset at any time to go back to the full page.
  5. Press Crop PDF. The cropped file is generated on your device and downloaded with the suffix _cropped and a timestamp.

How the crop is applied and what it cannot do

The crop is stored as a percentage of each page and mapped onto that page's own size and rotation, so a document that mixes portrait and landscape pages, or A4 and Letter, still gets a consistent result. Technically the tool sets the PDF CropBox of every page and leaves the rest of the file intact.

Privacy: cropping happens on your computer

The preview is rendered by the PDF engine bundled with OléPDF and the new file is written by a local PDF library, both running inside your browser tab. Your document is never transmitted, not even in pieces, and no third-party script is loaded. The only files that come over the network are OléPDF's own code from its own domain. When you close the tab, nothing of your PDF remains anywhere but on your disk.

For batches, the ZIP that is produced includes a small manifest listing the input and output names and sizes, generated locally as well.

Typical uses

Frequently asked questions

Is Crop PDF free?

Yes. Cropping is free and unlimited, with no watermark, no account and no daily cap. Only the batch mode, where you crop several PDFs in a single run, requires the 7-Day Pass or Pro.

Does cropping reduce the quality of the PDF?

No. The pages are not converted to images. The tool only adjusts the visible box of each page, so text, fonts and vector graphics are exactly as they were.

Can I crop only some pages?

Not in this tool: one box is applied to the whole document. For a different crop on certain pages, split the PDF, crop the parts separately and merge them back.

Is the cropped area really gone?

It is hidden from view and from printing, but it still exists inside the file. If you need the trimmed content to be unrecoverable, redact it with the anonymization tool, which rasterizes the affected pages.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes. The crop box can be dragged with a finger in any modern mobile browser, and the file is processed on the phone itself.

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