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Trim the edges off a PDF

Cut the white border off a scan, drop a header that repeats on every page, or square up a document that was captured with too much around it.

Add one PDF and trim the edges. Useful for cutting the white border off a scan, or the header off every page.

Processed in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

  • Runs in your browser
  • No account required
  • Free to use
  • Up to 50 files

How it works

01

The page box is changed, not the content

PDF describes a visible area for each page. Cropping moves that boundary in, so the page displays and prints smaller. Nothing is redrawn and no quality is lost.

02

Percentages, not millimetres

A trim is a share of the page, so the same setting works whether the document is A4, Letter or a phone screenshot.

03

Each edge on its own

Link all four for an even trim, or unlink to take a header off the top and leave the rest.

What it does

All four edges, independently

Top, right, bottom and left, up to 45% each.

Any pages

The whole document or a named range, so a cover page can be left alone.

Nothing re-encoded

Text stays selectable and images keep their resolution.

Reversible in principle

The content is still in the file — cropping hides it rather than deleting it.

Practical advice

Getting a better result

  • Cropping is not redaction. What is outside the crop is still in the file and can be recovered by anyone who moves the boundary back.
  • For a scan with an uneven border, crop the largest amount you can accept and check the tightest page before committing.
  • A 45% trim from opposite edges leaves a tenth of the page. That is the limit, and it is there so a crop cannot produce a page with nothing on it.
  • If you want the trimmed area really gone, crop first and then convert the pages to images.

Questions

Things people ask

Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?

No. The file is read into memory in your browser and everything happens there. There is no upload endpoint, and nothing on the page that can read your content, and a Content Security Policy allows no upload destination at all.

That also means the file never sits on someone else’s server waiting to be deleted, which is the part most people are actually worried about with a contract or an invoice.

Is the cropped area actually removed?

No. Cropping changes the visible boundary of the page; the content outside it is still stored in the document. That is how PDF works, and it is worth knowing before you use cropping to hide something sensitive.

To remove it for good, crop the PDF and then convert the pages to images, which keeps only what is visible.

Will the file get smaller?

Barely. Nothing is deleted, so the size is more or less unchanged.

Who builds these

Free tools by day. Websites that earn their keep by trade.

KuConvert is built by KUDUY, a web design and development agency. From custom WordPress builds to SEO and e-commerce, everything they do is engineered to bring you more qualified traffic and turn it into revenue.

  • Fixed scope, no surprise invoices

    Most sites ship in four to eight weeks with the scope and the price agreed up front.

  • SEO from day one

    Search is designed into the build — structure, schema and Core Web Vitals — not retrofitted.

  • A team, not a ticket queue

    A project manager, a designer and a developer you can actually reach.

Documents are only half the job

If the PDFs are going on a website, the site has to be worth landing on. KUDUY builds the pages around them — design, development and the SEO that gets them found.

This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your files are never uploaded.