How to Crop the Pages of a PDF Document

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This wikiHow teaches you how to crop and blend portions of a PDF—or multiple PDF documents—into a single document. You can do this on a Windows computer by using a combination of the Snipping Tool and Microsoft Word, or you can use Preview on a Mac. If you don't have access to Microsoft Word and/or Preview, you can use an online PDF splitter and cropper called PDF Resizer for free.

Upload your PDF to PDFResizer and use the Crop it button to crop pages. You can also use the Snipping Tool for Windows to crop part of a page in any PDF viewer. On a Mac, use the rectangular selection tool to highlight a section, then select the Crop tool.

Using PDF Resizer

• If your PDF is only one page in length, skip ahead to the "Click the Crop PDF tab" step instead.

Select your PDF. Click the PDF file that you want to use. You may first have to click its storage folder (e.g., Desktop) on the left side of the window.

Click Open . It's in the bottom-right corner of the window. This will add your PDF file to the PDF Resizer webpage.

• This process can take several minutes if your Internet connection is weak or your PDF is large.

Download the PDF. Click the circular Download button on the right side of the page. The PDF's individual pages will be downloaded.

• Windows - Double-click the ZIP folder, click Extract, click Extract all, and click Extract when prompted to unzip the folder.
• Mac - Double-click the ZIP folder to unzip it.

• You can only crop one page at a time. If you upload more than one page, the same crop will be applied to all of them.

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• At this point, you can upload another PDF page and crop it if you have multiple pages to crop.

• You can select up to 100 MB of files or 50 pages, whichever comes first.

Review your PDF's order. If the PDF's pages look to be in proper order, you can proceed; if not, you can click and drag pages up or down to re-order them.

Click Looks good, do the magic! . It's near the bottom of the page. Doing so merges the pages of the PDF together into one PDF.

Scroll up and download your PDF. Click Download below the merged PDF that's on the right side of the page. The PDF will download onto your computer.

Using Word on Windows

• If you don't already have reader app, Adobe Reader can be downloaded for free from the Adobe Reader site.

Scroll down to the page that you want to crop. If your PDF file is more than one page long and you want to crop a specific page, make sure that the page is open before proceeding.

Click Snipping Tool . It's at the top of the Start window. This will open a small window on top of your PDF file.

Enable the "Rectangular Snip" option. Click Mode at the top of the Snipping Tool window, then click Rectangular Snip in the resulting drop-down menu. Your mouse cursor will turn into a crosshairs icon.

Select a crop area. Click and drag the crosshairs across the section of the PDF that you want to crop. When you release your mouse cursor, the section will be cropped.

Click the "Save" button. It's a purple floppy disk icon at the top of the Snipping Tool window. A File Explorer window will open.

Click the "Desktop" folder. This is on the left side of the File Explorer window. Doing so selects the Desktop as the place in which your cropped PDF file will be saved, making it easier to find later.

• At this point, you can go back and crop any other pages or PDFs that you want to crop.

Click Blank document . This option is in the upper-left side of the window. A blank document will open.

Click the Insert tab, then click Picture . You'll find Insert at the top of the Word window, while Picture is in the "Illustrations" section of the toolbar.

• If you cropped several images, hold down Ctrl while clicking each image that you want to insert. Make sure to click them in the order in which you want them to appear.

Click File , then click Export . File is a tab in the upper-left side of the window, and Export will be near the bottom of the pop-out menu.

Create a PDF document. Click the Create PDF/XPS Document tab on the left side of the screen, then click Create PDF/XPS in the middle of the page.

Save your file. Click a save location on the left side of the window, type in a file name, and click Publish in the bottom-right side of the window. The Word document with your crops will now be saved as a new PDF document.

Using Preview on Mac

• Preview is Apple's native image viewer app that's automatically included with most versions of Mac OS.

Click Single Page . This option is in the drop-down menu. Doing so displays a full page in the Preview window.

Select a crop area. Click and drag the crosshairs across a portion of the PDF you want to keep. For example, if you want to keep the top part of a page but crop out the bottom part, drag the crosshairs from one corner of the top part across and down the page until the portion you want to keep is selected.

• Repeat this process for each page you want to crop.

Click Save . It's in the bottom-right corner of the window. This will save your cropped PDF into its own file.

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