A photographed or scanned document often carries a black border, a corner of desk or an oversized margin. In print it spoils the page; on screen it eats the useful area.
How it works
Drop your file on the page, or click to pick it from your folders.
Start the job. It runs inside your browser: nothing is sent to a server.
Download the result. No account, no watermark, no queue.
When this really helps
Remove a scan border
The black edge around the sheet disappears.
Reframe a photographed document
A page shot on a phone gets clean edges again.
Gain room in print
Smaller margins leave the text bigger.
What the conversion keeps, and what it loses
Working inside a browser comes with limits a hosted service does not have. Here they are in plain words, so you know what to expect before you start.
What is kept
- Everything inside the frame, with no loss
- Selectable text
- Image resolution
- The file weight, almost unchanged
What is not carried over
- Whatever falls outside the frame is no longer displayed
- The same framing applies to every page
Worth knowing about the format
Cropping changes the displayed area of the page, not its content. Technically, what falls outside stays in the file but is no longer shown: to truly erase it, reprint the result as a PDF afterwards.
Not the right tool?
- Rotate a PDF — Un scan de travers se redresse avant d'être recadré.
- Compress a PDF — Pour alléger le document une fois recadré.
- PDF → JPG — Pour récupérer directement les pages recadrées en images.
Why it's free
Online converters receive your file on their servers, process it, then promise to delete it. Every document costs them computing time: that is why they charge, and why they cap file sizes.
Here, the work happens on your own computer. The page contains no server code: your document cannot be received, because it is never sent. So there is nothing to bill, nothing to cap, and nothing to delete afterwards. Cut your connection once the page has loaded — everything keeps working.
Frequently asked questions
Does the framing apply to every page?
Yes, the same frame is applied throughout. That is the dominant case, a scan having the same margins from first page to last.
Is the cropped content removed from the file?
No: it is merely hidden by the new display area. If the point is to erase information, reprint the result as a PDF after cropping.
Does the file get lighter?
Barely: nothing is re-encoded. To genuinely lighten it, follow up with compression.
Other tools
Edit the text in a PDF — Fix a line that is already written, even on a scanned document. This is the feature other services charge for, and the natural starting point when you need to retouch before converting.