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Crop PDF

The printed area found for you, or the margins you type; nothing rasterised.

More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.Add to Chrome

How to crop PDF

  1. Drop the PDF.
  2. Let the printed area be found, or type the margins.
  3. Press Crop and download.

What happens to your file

Each page’s visible box is set — the CropBox readers and printers honour — either to the printed area found by rendering the page and trimming the white, with a small breathing space, or to the margins you typed. The page’s content is not touched: text stays selectable, nothing is redrawn, and the full page is one edit away in any PDF editor.

The printed-area finder reads up to sixty pages; longer documents take typed margins. A blank page keeps its size.

Questions

Will the file get smaller?

No — nothing is deleted, only hidden by the box. Cropping is for reading on a phone or printing without waste, not for size; use Compress PDF for that.

Can I crop a different area on each page?

The printed-area mode already does, per page. Typed margins apply to every page alike.

Do it once, not on every form

Fixing a file here means downloading it and going back to the form. The Fylane extension does this work inside the form instead, on the file you already have.

And it keeps the result. The next application that asks for a résumé, a cover letter and a photo fills all three from one tap, each one refitted to what that site accepts.

Your files stay in the browser, encrypted, on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to keep them and nothing is sent anywhere to fill a form.

Filmed from the extension: three upload fields on a job application, filled from one tap.

Add to Chrome — freeWhat it does

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "pdf.crop",
    "options": {
      "mode": "auto",
      "top": 10,
      "bottom": 10,
      "left": 10,
      "right": 10
    }
  }'

The same operation, pdf.crop — Each page’s CropBox set: margins you name in millimetres, or found automatically from the printed area. Nothing rasterised. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.