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Draw a crop area on the preview, or click a preset above
A4
210—297mm
A3
297—420mm
A5
148—210mm
Letter
8.5—11in
Legal
8.5—14in
Custom
ℹ️ Content is scaled to fit the new page size while maintaining aspect ratio.
ℹ️ Adds white space around the content. Useful for printing or binding.
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How to crop and resize PDF pages +

Crop — Upload your PDF, then drag on the preview to draw your crop area. Use the 8 handles to fine-tune the selection, or click a preset (A4, A5, Letter…) to snap to a standard size. Click Apply & Download.

Resize to size — Rescales each page’s content to fit a new standard size while keeping aspect ratio.

Add Margins — Adds white space around existing content without cropping anything.

Frequently asked questions +

Does crop permanently delete content?
It sets the PDF MediaBox and CropBox to the selected area. The content outside is hidden but technically still in the file structure. Re-opening in a tool that ignores CropBox may show the full page.

What size for Indian government portals?
A4 (210 × 297 mm) is standard for all government, legal, and official document submissions in India.

Can I crop individual pages?
Uncheck “Apply to all pages” and enter the page numbers or range you want (e.g. 1, 3, 5–8).

How to Crop and Resize a PDF

  1. Upload your PDF — a live preview of the first page appears with crop handles so you can define the area to keep.
  2. Drag the crop handles inward to define your crop area, or click a standard page size preset (A4, A5, Letter) to snap to an exact size automatically.
  3. Switch between Crop (trim page edges), Resize to size (scale content to a new page dimension), or Add Margins (add whitespace around content) using the mode tabs.
  4. Optionally uncheck "Apply to all pages" to target specific pages only. Click Apply & Download to save the result.

Why use LovelyPDF

Cropping and resizing happen entirely in your browser using PDF.js and pdf-lib — your file is never transmitted to any server. This is important for documents that contain personal information, financial data, or proprietary designs that should not leave your device during processing.

No registration is required. The crop area selector, preset size buttons, and resize modes are all freely available without an account. There is no watermark on the output and no limit on file size or number of pages you can process.

The interactive crop tool works on touchscreens and desktop equally. Pinch to zoom the preview on a phone before dragging the handles, or use precise mouse dragging on a laptop. Standard page size presets make it easy to resize to A4 or Letter in a single click regardless of device.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does cropping permanently delete the content outside the crop area? +

Crop sets the PDF's MediaBox and CropBox to the selected region. The content outside is hidden from all standard PDF viewers and is not visible when printing. The data technically remains in the file structure but is inaccessible to normal readers. For complete and irreversible removal, use the Compress PDF tool with Maximum Compression after cropping — this rasterises the page and discards all off-canvas data.

What is the difference between Crop and Resize? +

Crop cuts the visible boundary of the page — content near the edges is hidden. Resize scales all page content proportionally to fit a new page dimension — nothing is cut; the full content is preserved but rendered at a different size. Use Crop to remove headers, footers, or margins from a scanned page; use Resize to convert Letter-size documents to A4 before submitting to Indian portals.

What page size should I use for Indian government portals? +

A4 — 210 × 297 mm — is the standard accepted by all Indian government, court, and official document portals including DigiLocker, MCA, NCLT, and most High Court filing systems. Click the A4 preset in the page size panel to resize any document to A4 instantly without manually entering dimensions.

Can I crop individual pages differently within the same PDF? +

Uncheck "Apply to all pages" and enter specific page numbers or a range (for example, 2-5) to crop only those pages. Pages not included in your selection remain unchanged. For complex scenarios where different pages need completely different crop areas, process each group separately and merge the results using Merge PDF.