A real crop, not a white box on top
It's worth being precise about what cropping means here: PDFDistrict changes the page's actual visible area (technically, its CropBox), not just draws something over the parts you don't want. That distinction matters because a genuine crop is respected by every PDF viewer and printer, while a shape drawn on top can still be removed or seen underneath by anyone who edits the file.
Selecting the area visually
Instead of typing in coordinates, you drag a rectangle directly over a preview of the first page to mark what should stay. That same area is then applied to every other page in the document, scaled proportionally — so a document with a mix of page sizes still gets a sensible, consistent crop throughout, and pages that are rotated or in landscape orientation are cropped according to how they actually display, not their raw stored dimensions.
How to crop a PDF
- 1 Open the tool at pdfdistrict.com/crop/ and select your PDF.
- 2 Drag a rectangle over the page preview to mark the area you want to keep.
- 3 Click “Apply Crop.” The cropped PDF downloads immediately, with every page trimmed to that same area.
Common reasons to crop a PDF
- Removing scan margins — trimming the blank border a scanner adds around a page
- Isolating one part of a page — keeping just a chart, table or paragraph from a larger layout
- Preparing pages for printing — fitting content to a specific paper size or region
- Removing headers or footers — trimming off a strip that repeats on every page
Cropping a document that's already rotated the wrong way? Fix the orientation first, then crop — that way the selection you drag matches what the page will actually look like in the end.