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Crop PDF margins on your Mac or PC. No cloud.

Cut the white border off scans, the wide margins around slides or the scanner bed around a small document. Draw the crop on the page or type the margins, and apply it to every page of every file. Your PDFs stay on your computer.

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  • Then $45 once, no subscription
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From the recording

The real run, file by file.

1 file went in and Hangar wrote 1 file. It is the same run as in the recording, with the real names and sizes. Your originals are never changed.

  • Lumen-Delivery-Notes-Scan.pdf255 KBLumen-Delivery-Notes-Scan-cropped.pdf255 KB3 pages

1 file in1 file outoriginals untouched

255 KB255 KB

How it works

How to crop a PDF on Mac or Windows

  1. Add PDFs that share a layout

    Drop the files to crop. The same margins work best on files laid out alike, such as scans from one scanner.

  2. Draw the crop or type it

    Drag the frame in the Crop Studio, or type Left, Right, Top and Bottom in millimeters or points. Give an odd page its own crop with This page.

  3. Check and save

    Each file is saved with -cropped in its name. Click View to make sure no header or page number was cut off.

New to Hangar? How to run a tool, step by step

Choose how to set it

Type it, draw it, or fix one page.

The margin fields, the Crop Studio frame and per-page crops all set the same thing: how far in from each edge the page ends. The area outside is hidden, not deleted.

  • Link all sides

    One number trims all four edges equally.

    Best for even white borders on scans.

  • All pages

    Start here

    Draw the frame once in the Crop Studio for every page.

    Best for slides and scans with the content off-center.

  • This page

    One page gets its own crop, the rest follow the main one.

    Best for a wide table or a sideways page.

Every setting, explained in the Crop PDF guide Margins · Per-page overrides

The alternative

Why not crop it on a website?

Preview on a Mac can crop pages by eye, and an online cropper handles a single file. For exact margins across a batch, here is the difference.

ComparedOnline PDF croppersHangar
Where your scans goUploaded to their serversStay on your computer
Exact marginsUsually a box dragged by eyeDrawn, or typed in mm or points
Many PDFs, one cropOften one file at a timeThe whole queue in one run
Works offlineNoYes
Nothing to installRuns in your browserA desktop app to install

Who uses it

Who uses Crop PDF

  • Scanner users

    Just the paper, no scanner bed

    Crop A4 scans of small notes and cards down to the paper itself.

  • Presenters

    Slides without the wide margins

    Trim exported slides so the content fills the page on screen.

  • Readers

    Margins made for screens

    Tighten wide print margins so papers read larger on a laptop or tablet.

One app, one payment

Crop PDF is one of 74 tools.

The same app merges, splits, signs, redacts and reads scanned PDFs, and does the same kind of work for images, video and audio. One payment covers every tool.

A typical routine

Where Crop PDF fits

  1. Step 1Crop PDF
  2. Step 2PDF to images
  3. Step 3Compress images

Crop the slides to their content. Then export every page as an image and compress the images for the web.

Questions

Before you download

More answers in the help center.

Is it really free?

Every tool is free for 3 days, with no account and no card. After that, Hangar is a one-time payment from $45, with updates for the version you buy. There is no subscription.

Does cropping make the file smaller?

No. The area outside the crop stays in the file, so the size barely changes. Run Compress PDF to make it smaller.

Can I crop a file for a print shop?

Bleed settings are removed from cropped pages. If a print shop needs bleed, crop in the app that made the file instead.

Is anything deleted when I crop?

No. The content outside the crop is hidden, not removed. Apps that extract text can still read it, so use Redact PDF to remove anything private. Hangar cannot widen a crop again, so crop your original instead.

Can different pages have different crops?

Yes. Set a crop for the whole document and override individual pages that need a different one.

Does it handle rotated pages correctly?

Yes. The margins map to the right edges based on each page rotation, so a sideways page crops as you would expect.

Does anything get uploaded?

No. Your files are processed on your computer and never sent anywhere. Hangar sends anonymous usage counts to improve the app, never file names or contents, and you can turn that off in Settings.

Does one license cover Mac and Windows?

Yes. A license works on any mix of Mac and Windows computers. Solo covers 1 computer, Crew 3 and Fleet 10.

Try Crop PDF free for 3 days.

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Intel Mac or need help installing? All downloads

Hangar runs on Mac and Windows. Open this page there to download.