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You can crop any part of your PDF page. The selected portion will be kept and the rest of the page will be hidden. You can recover it later if you need access to it.

Open the Page Tab.
Click Crop.
Choose Set Crop.

The mouse icon will change and you will need to select the part of the page you want to keep.

The Crop Document window will open. Here you can fine-tune your settings. The black box in the preview section is the current area you’d like to keep. Its dimensions are listed above.

You can set the unit of measurement you’d like to use for setting up the crop area.

Click the dropdown under Units.
Choose one.

You can set each layer of the page box you want to configure. Below is a brief description of each option.

CropBox – This is the area of the PDF page that should remain visible.

ArtBox – This is used to indicate a safety zone, where graphical elements can be added to the page without going too close to the edge of the document.

TrimBox – This will set the final page size of the PDF document.

BleedBox – This will let you set a bleed area when printing.

You can set each of these for your crop job.

Click the dropdown under Apply to.
Choose the box you want to work with.

Click Show All to see all layers at once.

Adjust each box to reflect the distance away from the edge of the page you want to set the dimension.

Toggle the switch next to Constrain properties to lock the dimensions to the same number as you make changes.

You can remove white margins from your document.

Toggle the switch next to Remove white margins.

You can reset all proportions for each box.

Click SET TO ZERO and each dimension will be reset.

You can undo this, restoring the settings to what you had chosen.

Click REVERT TO SELECTION to undo the reset.

Now that you’ve set up the boxes for your page crop, it’s time to decide which pages in your PDF will be cropped.

Range – You can decide the specific pages in your document that will be cropped.

Using a dash (-) tells Soda PDF to crop all pages between those page numbers, inclusively. To apply to pages between page 2 and page 5 you would type “2-5”.

Using a comma (,) you can add multiple groups of pages. As an example, to crop all pages from 2 to 5, then page 8, page 10, and page 11, you would type it out as follows “2-5,8,10-11”.

Choose the option that best applies under Page Range.
All – Each page in the document will be cropped according to your settings.

Under Change Page Size you can choose to make all pages in your PDF the same size.

Choose Fixed if you’d like to use standard page sizes.
Choose the page size you want to use from the Page Size dropdown.

Choose Custom if you’d like to set your own page size.
Set the Height and Width by typing the dimensions into their respective box.

Click OK to apply your crop settings.

Click OK to apply your crop settings.

If you want to crop multiple documents at once, you can open our batch crop tool if you want to crop across multiple documents at once. Choosing this will not apply the settings you have just made.

Click CROP MULTIPLE FILES and you’ll be brought to the batch setup tool.

In the batch tool, you’ll have the same settings that are available here. The main difference is that you will apply your crop job to multiple files at once.

You can undo the document crop, revealing the full contents of the document.