Plicum Tools Crop PDF

Crop the margins of a PDF

Scans often carry black borders, huge margins or a piece of the scanner. You remove them by choosing the area to keep and seeing beforehand how it will look.

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In three steps

Open the document

You see the page on screen and understand how much margin there is to remove.

Choose the area

Define the box to keep and apply it to one page or to all of them.

Crop

You get the PDF with the pages trimmed as you chose.

What happens to your file

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The file does not leave your device. Thirty-two tools out of thirty-eight.

Crop PDF: frequently asked questions

Cropping acts on the visible area of the page. If you need certainty that content is removed and not merely out of frame — a confidential detail, say — the right tool is Redact, which removes the content instead of hiding it.

Yes, and it is the most common case with scans, where the border to remove is the same throughout the document.

Yes: that is exactly what it gets picked for most often. Removing the border also makes the document lighter and easier to read on screen.

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