How to Crop Pages in PDF Documents

Open PDF documents with a PDF reader program such as Adobe Reader.

• If you don’t have a reader available, you can download Adobe Reader for free at the Adobe Reader site.

Drag down the page you want to crop. If the PDF file has multiple pages and you want to crop a specific page, be sure to open that page before continuing.

Open Start

. Click the Windows icon in the lower left corner of the screen.

Type snipping top to find the Snipping Top program on your computer.

Click Snipping Top at the top of the Start window to open a small window above the PDF file.

Turn on the “Rectangular Snip” option. Click Mode above the Snipping Top window, then click Rectangular Snip in the drop-down list. The mouse pointer will become a cross symbol.

Select the crop area. Click and drag the cross icon on the part of the PDF document that you want to crop. When you release the mouse pointer, the selected part will be cut out.

Release the mouse button to crop the PDF to the selected area.

Click the “Save” button with the purple floppy disk icon at the top of the Snipping Top window to open the File Explorer window.

Click the “Desktop” folder on the left side of the File Explorer window. This will select Desktop as the place to save the cut PDF, making it easier to find it again.

Click Save in the lower-right corner of the window to save your file to the selected folder under the name “Capture”.

• Now, you can go back and trim other pages or PDF documents that you want to crop.

Open Microsoft Word with a white “W” icon on a blue background.

Click Blank document in the upper-left corner of the window to open a blank page.

Click the Insert tab, then click Picture . You’ll see Insert at the top of the Word window, and Picture in the “Illustrations” section of the toolbar.

Select the image that you have cropped from the PDF. Click the Desktop tab on the left side of the window, then click the “Capture” image and select Insert .

• If you’ve cropped multiple photos, hold down the Ctrl key while clicking each photo you want to add. Remember to click the images in the order in which you want them to appear.

Click File , then select Export . The File tab is in the upper-left corner of the window, and Export is near the bottom of the list that appears.

Create PDF documents. 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 file. Click the save folder on the left side of the window, give it a name, and click Publish in the lower right corner of the window. Your Word document with the cropped images will be saved as a new PDF file.

Open a PDF document with the Preview application. You double-click the blue Preview application with the icon of two overlapping image frames, select File in the menu bar, click Open… in the displayed list, select the file. in the dialog box, and click Open in the lower-right corner of the window.

• Preview is Apple’s default photo viewer application commonly available on most versions of Mac OS.

Click View in the menu near the top of the screen to open a selection list.

Click Single Page in the selection list to display the entire page in the Preview window.

Click Tops (Tools) in the menu.

Click Rectangular Selection in the selection list.

Select the area to crop. Click and drag the cross icon over the portion of the PDF document that you want to keep. For example, if you want to keep the header but remove the footer, drag the crosshair from one corner of the header down to the section you want to keep.

Release the mouse button. The selected part will be inside the rectangular frame.

Click Tops in the menu one more time.

Click Crop . The remaining document outside the selected area will be clipped.

• Repeat this process on each page that you want to crop.

Click File in the menu, then select Export as PDF… in the list that appears.