Crop PDF

Cut away white margins, headers or anything outside the part you need. Drag a box on the page, type exact margins in mm, or let the tool find the white margins for you. Crop every page the same way or each page on its own. Free, no watermark, and your file never leaves your browser.

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How it works

A PDF page has a few boxes that say which part of it is shown and printed. This tool uses pdf-lib to shrink the page's MediaBox and CropBox to the area you picked, so every viewer and printer shows only that part. Nothing is re-rendered: text stays selectable and searchable, links and fonts are kept, and the file size barely changes. The preview and the white-margin detection use pdf.js, which also handles rotated pages, so the box you draw is the box you get.

Auto-crop renders each page, finds the area that isn't white, and adds a small 3 mm border. With "Same crop on every page" it uses one box that fits the content of all pages (so nothing gets cut on a busier page). With "Crop each page separately" every page gets its own tight box.

Making the PDFs yourself?

Big margins usually come from a print stylesheet or a page size that doesn't match the content. If your PDFs come from web pages or HTML templates, the Shotmint API renders them in Chromium with the margins you set, even 0:

curl "https://shotmint.creasework.com/v1/pdf?url=https://example.com&format=A4&margin=0mm" -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" -o page.pdf

Each render is 1 credit. €5 buys 2,000 with no subscription, and credits never expire. Try it without a key on URL to PDF and HTML to PDF.

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FAQ

Is the cropped part deleted? No. It is hidden, not removed, which keeps text and quality exactly as they were. Someone with a PDF editor could reset the page boxes and see it again, so don't use cropping to hide private information: convert the page to an image and black it out instead.

Can I crop just one page? Yes. Pick "Crop each page separately", go to that page and draw the box. Pages you don't touch stay as they are.

Will the page size change? Yes, the page becomes the size of your box (shown under the margins). To print it on A4 or Letter again, choose "Fit to page" in the print dialog.

Is my PDF uploaded? No. Everything runs in JavaScript on this page, so your documents stay on your device.

Why does it say password-protected? Encrypted PDFs can't be changed without the password. Save a copy without the password in your PDF viewer, then try again.

Crop PDF

How it works

Making the PDFs yourself?

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