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Crop the margins off. Or the header. Or the weird strip of white.

Drop the PDF. Drag a crop box where you want to keep. Download the trimmed version. Free, in your browser, no signup, no watermark.

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Supported formats: Single PDF input with cropped PDF output.

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Upload a PDF to crop

Drag and drop or click to browse. Pdf Clarity opens the crop tool with your PDF staged for preview.

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What happens next

Your file opens in the matching tool so you can edit, convert, or export it without uploading it a second time.

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  • No watermarks
  • Files deleted after 1 hour

Encrypted upload. Deleted in an hour. Never shared. Never trained on. Ever.

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How to crop a PDF, end to end.

Three clicks from a dropzone on this page to a trimmed PDF in your Downloads folder. You never leave the tab.

  1. Drop your PDF on this page.

    Drag it from your desktop or click to browse. It uploads encrypted. We can't see it.

  2. Drag a crop box on the page.

    Pick the rectangle you want to keep. Apply it to just this page, or push the same crop to every page in the document with one click.

  3. Download. We forget.

    Your trimmed PDF lands in Downloads. Our copy is deleted within the hour. Nothing to clean up later.

What you can actually do on this page.

Four honest crop moves you can finish in the browser you're already in. No Adobe, no signup, no installing a desktop tool for a five-second job.

  • Drag a crop box where you want to keep.

    Click and drag on the page preview to define the area you want. Resize the edges until the crop shows exactly the content you care about.

  • Apply to one page or every page.

    Crop just the page you're on, or push the same crop rectangle to every page in the document. Good for trimming consistent margins across a long PDF in one pass.

  • Reset if you picked wrong.

    Not happy with the rectangle? Reset the current page or reset every page back to the original dimensions and try again. No downloads lost, no restart.

  • Never a watermark.

    Free means free. No stamp on the trimmed copy, no diagonal "sample," no gotcha at download.

Why people choose Pdf Clarity

  • Private by default

    Your PDFs are transferred over TLS and deleted within one hour. We don't look at them, and you don't need an account.

  • Fast and free

    Editing, annotating, signing, merging and splitting are free with no signup. Your first upload opens the editor in seconds.

  • Works in any browser

    Open the editor in Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Edge on Mac, Windows, Linux or Chromebook. You never install anything.

More ways to crop a PDF

Crop PDF margins

Trim the white space around your page so the content fills the screen when someone reads it on a phone. You skip the tedious print-to-PDF detour and keep the original file quality.

Crop PDF header or footer

Cut off a running header, a company footer, or a page-number strip you don't want in the shared copy. Drag the crop box to exclude the band you want gone.

Crop PDF to content

Tighten the visible area to just the paragraph, image, or table you're sharing. Good for posting an excerpt without including the rest of the page.

Crop PDF online free

The cropping runs in your browser and doesn't require an account. Your file uploads encrypted, you download the trimmed copy, and we delete our copy within the hour.

Frequently asked questions

Quick answers to what people ask us most about editing a PDF online for free. Tap any question and the answer expands inline.

Does cropping delete the content outside the box?
This tool updates the PDF's crop box so viewers display only the selected area. The underlying content isn't rewritten, but every PDF reader respects the crop box so the page looks trimmed everywhere it's opened.
Can I apply the same crop to every page?
Yes. Drag the crop box on one page, then hit "apply to all" to push the same crop rectangle to every page in the document. Handy when you're trimming consistent margins across a long PDF.
What happens when my pages have different sizes?
The tool reuses the edge ratios from your current page, so the crop stays visually consistent even on mixed-size documents — a legal-size page ends up trimmed proportionally to how you trimmed the letter-size one.
Can I undo a crop I don't like?
Yes. Reset just the current page or reset every page back to the original dimensions and try again. No re-upload needed.
Will the cropped PDF have a watermark?
Never. Not on free, not on Pro, not ever.
Is it really free? What's the catch?
There isn't one. Cropping, editing, merging, signing — all free, for as long as you need them. No signup, no watermark, no trial timer.
How big a PDF can I crop?
Up to 100 MB on the free plan. If you need bigger — a long scan, a thick report — the Pro tier handles up to 500 MB.
What happens to my file after I'm done?
Deleted within one hour of upload. Encrypted in transit and at rest. Never read by a human, never shared, never used to train anything.
Does it work on an iPad, Chromebook, or phone?
Yes. Any browser — Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge. A mouse or trackpad is smoother for drawing the crop box; touch works in a pinch.

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