Crop PDF

Crop the margins of a PDF by dragging edge sliders with a live preview, then apply to all pages. Non-destructive to page content. Runs entirely in your browser — no uploads.

How to use Crop PDF: Open Crop PDF — no sign-up or software download is required. Drag and drop your file(s) into the tool, or click to browse and select them from your device. Choose any options you need, such as order, quality, page range or output format. Everything runs inside your browser, so your data never leaves your device.

Select a PDF to crop

Processed locally in your browser — never uploaded.

Crop the margins of a PDF by dragging edge sliders with a live preview, then apply to all pages. Non-destructive to page content. Runs entirely in your browser — no uploads. Crop PDF is a free, browser-based tool in the Filevane pdf tools collection — there is nothing to install, no account to create and no watermark on your results. It works on desktop, tablet and mobile, and because the work happens on your own device it stays fast even with large inputs.

How to use Crop PDF

Open Crop PDF — no sign-up or software download is required.
Drag and drop your file(s) into the tool, or click to browse and select them from your device.
Choose any options you need, such as order, quality, page range or output format.
Click the action button and let the tool process everything locally in your browser.
Download the finished file. Your originals are never changed or uploaded.

Why use Crop PDF?

100% free with no limits, no sign-up and no watermarks.
Private by design — your files are processed in your browser and never uploaded to a server.
Fast and lightweight, with instant results even on a phone or a slow connection.
Works everywhere — any modern browser on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android or iOS.
Part of a full pdf tools suite, so related crop pdf tasks are one click away.

What people use Crop PDF for

Trimming the wide margins from a scanned book page to make it readable on a phone.
Removing a header or footer band added by a previous process.
Cutting a document down to the printable area before sending it to a press.

Crop PDF: limits and things worth knowing

Cropping sets the page's visible box; it does not delete the content outside it. The hidden material is still in the file and can be recovered by resetting the crop, so cropping is not a way to hide sensitive information — use Redact PDF for that.
Because nothing is removed, the file size does not go down when you crop.
The crop is applied uniformly across pages, so a document with inconsistent scan margins may need more than one pass.

Is it private and secure?

Your privacy is built in. Crop PDF does all processing on your own device using client-side code, so your files are never transmitted, stored or seen by anyone — including us.

Network activity: none. Nothing is sent and nothing is fetched. This tool makes no network request at all once the page has loaded — which is why it keeps working if your connection drops.

You do not have to take that on trust — our privacy proof page publishes the Content-Security-Policy that enforces it, lists every third party it permits, and shows how to verify the whole claim yourself.

We also measured the competition. Our PDF upload audit recorded how many bytes each of 20 online PDF tools actually transmits: 12 of the 13 measurable services uploaded the whole test file, and Filevane transmitted 0.00 MB.

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