This tool can crop margins from every page of a PDF, or just the ones you pick — a scan with a wide white border, a page footer, or margins that waste space when you print — free with no account needed.
Here's how to crop a PDF without losing quality: set how much to cut off each side as a percentage, name the pages if you only want some, and download it. Nothing is re-compressed — the pages themselves are untouched.
By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: August 2026
Your file is deleted the moment it's done. The big PDF sites keep your bank statements and IDs on their servers. Here the original goes right after processing, the result after 45 minutes.
A PDF page carries a note that says which part of it should be shown — the crop box. Cropping here changes that note and nothing else: the text stays text, the images stay exactly the bytes they were, and a searchable scan stays searchable.
That also means the content outside the box is still in the file, the same way a PDF viewer can widen the view again. Cropping is for tidying a page's edges, not for permanently removing something sensitive — treat it like trimming a photo, not shredding a document.
It is a free PDF crop tool that works the same whether you crop PDF online for a single file or crop PDF files one after another. Want to crop just a photo that sits on the page? The margin percentages apply to the whole page, not to one image on it; to crop the photo itself, PicReviver's crop image does that.
One thing this doesn't do: add printer's crop marks, the small corner guide lines a print shop uses to trim a page. That's the opposite job — adding marks rather than cutting margins — and isn't something this page does. Cropping a document free, online, with no separate editor to open, is the job it's built for.
Trimming a PDF means the same thing here: the same margin-percentage cut, removing margins from the outer edge of the page and nothing else.
Cutting tight margins also works like a simple zoom, since less blank space means the remaining text fills more of the page. Whether it's a single sheet or a whole scanned report, a form or a letter, you type four percentages and press the button; the visible boundary changes, while the text and images underneath never do.
Can you crop a PDF that already has a wide white border? That is exactly the case this page is built for, with no editor to install. A PDF crop online works the same for one file or a batch, and this online PDF cropper needs no account and works the same in a phone browser as on a desktop: an online PDF crop on ten files in a row is no different from doing it once, and you can crop online in Safari or Chrome on an iPhone too.
It stays free however many files you run through it: crop PDF document free of charge, or crop PDF documents free one after another, with no daily cap, no watermark, no card and no trial. Cropping a PDF online free of charge works at any size.
A 10% margin looks the same on an A4 invoice and a US Letter form, and it scales itself on a document that mixes a portrait report with one landscape spreadsheet page in the middle. A fixed measurement in millimetres would eat a small page and barely touch a large one, so every margin here is a percentage of that page's own width or height.
Leave the pages box empty and every page gets the same margins. Type 3 and only page three is cropped; type 2,5-7 and it is page two plus pages five through seven. The rest of the document keeps its original size, untouched.
To remove margins from PDF pages, set a top, bottom, left and right percentage and press Crop. Because the percentage scales to each page's own size, you can crop PDFs that mix portrait and landscape pages, such as a Word PDF export with one wide table, in one go, and pages scanned at different sizes work the same way. It changes only the crop box, the part of the file PDF readers display.
No copy of a PDF file is left behind once the 45-minute window passes.
Your PDF is uploaded to our own machine, changed there, and the original is deleted the moment it is done. The result is deleted automatically after 45 minutes.
Cropped a page down to the wrong size? Run the download back through with smaller margins, or start again from your original — the margins are measured from the page as it currently is, so a second crop always cuts from what you see now. Need the whole page turned instead of trimmed? Rotate PDF does that. Only need a few pages out of a bigger file? Split PDF pulls out a range.
It's a PDF cropper, not a full editor: it only changes each page's visible boundary. To edit PDF text itself you need a desktop editor. Text stays text, images keep their exact bytes, and nothing is re-compressed.
Trimming and cropping a PDF are the same job here: you remove margins from the outer edge of the page, and nothing else. As a PDF cropping tool it stays focused rather than being a full PDF editor, and it has no hidden tier: every page is free to crop. The original stays untouched until you press the button.
Is there a way to crop a pdf without buying Acrobat? Yes: drag the box over the area you want to keep and every page follows the same margins.
Drop the PDF in, set a top/bottom/left/right margin as a percentage, name pages if you only want some, and press Crop. The download has the new crop saved into the file. That is how to crop PDF pages in one step.
It hides it. Cropping moves the page's visible boundary; the underlying content is still in the file, the same way a PDF viewer can widen the view again. If you need content permanently removed for privacy, cropping is not the right tool.
Yes. Type the page numbers in the pages box, for example 3, or 2,5-7 for several. That is how to crop PDF document pages selectively, while the rest keep their full size. Leave the box empty to crop every page.
No. Only the page's visible boundary changes. Text stays text, images keep their exact bytes, and a searchable scan stays searchable.
A percentage works the same on every page size, including a document that mixes A4 and a landscape page. A fixed measurement would eat a small page and barely touch a large one.
Yes. Leave the pages box empty and the same margins apply to every page in one pass; that is how to crop PDF documents from start to finish, even when they mix portrait and landscape pages.
25 pages and 250 MB per file on the free tier, or 200 pages and 500 MB with a pass. There is no account, no watermark and no daily cap.
Yes. Upload the PDF, set the margin percentages and download, with no installation, no account and no watermark. How to crop a PDF on Mac is the same as anywhere else: it runs in Safari or Chrome, and on an iPhone too.
A PDF cropper, not a full editor: it only changes each page's visible boundary. Text stays text, images keep their exact bytes, and nothing is re-compressed.
No. Crop marks are the small corner guide lines a print shop uses to trim paper; adding them is the opposite job, and this page only cuts margins.
No, the margins apply to the whole page, not to one image on it. To crop image files themselves, use PicReviver's crop tool.
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