Can cropping detect and remove whitespace automatically?

Yes, an auto-detect option scans each page for its actual content boundary and trims excess margin automatically, which is faster than manually dragging a crop box on every page.

Can I apply a different crop to different pages?

Yes, you're not limited to one uniform crop for the whole document — adjust the boundary per page if some pages need different trimming than others.

Does cropping delete the trimmed content permanently, or just hide it?

This tool adjusts the page's visible boundary using standard PDF crop-box behavior. The result displays and prints as cropped in standard viewers.

Will cropping affect text selection or searchability?

No, text within the visible cropped area remains fully selectable and searchable — cropping only changes what's visible, not how the underlying content is stored.

Can I crop a scanned PDF the same way as a text-based one?

Yes, both auto-detect and manual cropping work on scanned image content the same way they work on text and vector graphics.

Is my file uploaded to a server?

No. Every operation on this page runs locally in your browser using JavaScript and WebAssembly. Your file is never transmitted anywhere, which also means it works without an internet connection once the page has loaded.

Crop PDF

Trim margins from a PDF manually or automatically detect and remove whitespace.

Processed entirely in your browser — your file is never uploaded anywhere.

Why crop PDFs with Tools Root

Documents scanned with an oversized margin, exported with excess white space, or combined from sources with mismatched page sizes often need trimming to look clean and consistent. Cropping fixes this without needing to reprint or rescan anything.

Auto-detect or manual, page by page

Automatic whitespace detection handles the common case quickly across a whole document, while manual per-page adjustment covers documents where pages genuinely need different treatment — a scanned book with inconsistent margins, for instance.

Common use cases

Trimming excess white margin from a scanned document, cropping a PDF exported from a webpage that includes unwanted browser chrome, standardizing page dimensions across a document combined from multiple sources, or removing a printer's crop marks from a print-ready file before digital distribution.

How to crop a PDF

1Upload your PDF.
2Drag the crop boundary on the page preview, or use auto-detect to trim whitespace automatically.
3Apply the same crop to every page, or adjust page by page.
4Download the cropped PDF.

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