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pdfcrop — Detect and remove margins in each page in a PDF file. More information: <https://github.com/ho-tex/p

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Problem

How to use the pdfcrop command: Detect and remove margins in each page in a PDF file. More information: <https://github.com/ho-tex/pdfcrop>.

Solution

pdfcrop — Detect and remove margins in each page in a PDF file. More information: <https://github.com/ho-tex/pdfcrop>.

Automatically detect and remove the margin for each page in a PDF file:

pdfcrop {{path/to/input_file.pdf}} {{path/to/output_file.pdf}}

Set the margins of each page to a specific value:

pdfcrop {{path/to/input_file.pdf}} --margins '{{left}} {{top}} {{right}} {{bottom}}' {{path/to/output_file.pdf}}

Set the margins of each page to a specific value, using the same value for left, top, right, and bottom:

pdfcrop {{path/to/input_file.pdf}} --margins {{300}} {{path/to/output_file.pdf}}

Use a user-defined bounding box for cropping instead of automatically detecting it:

pdfcrop {{path/to/input_file.pdf}} --bbox '{{left}} {{top}} {{right}} {{bottom}}' {{path/to/output_file.pdf}}

Use different user-defined bounding boxes for odd and even pages:

pdfcrop {{path/to/input_file.pdf}} --bbox-odd '{{left}} {{top}} {{right}} {{bottom}}' --bbox-even '{{left}} {{top}} {{right}} {{bottom}}' {{path/to/output_file.pdf}}

Automatically detect margins using a lower resolution for improved performance:

pdfcrop {{path/to/input_file.pdf}} --resolution {{72}} {{path/to/output_file.pdf}}

Code Snippets

Automatically detect and remove the margin for each page in a PDF file

pdfcrop {{path/to/input_file.pdf}} {{path/to/output_file.pdf}}

Set the margins of each page to a specific value

pdfcrop {{path/to/input_file.pdf}} --margins '{{left}} {{top}} {{right}} {{bottom}}' {{path/to/output_file.pdf}}

Set the margins of each page to a specific value, using the same value for left, top, right, and bottom

pdfcrop {{path/to/input_file.pdf}} --margins {{300}} {{path/to/output_file.pdf}}

Use a user-defined bounding box for cropping instead of automatically detecting it

pdfcrop {{path/to/input_file.pdf}} --bbox '{{left}} {{top}} {{right}} {{bottom}}' {{path/to/output_file.pdf}}

Use different user-defined bounding boxes for odd and even pages

pdfcrop {{path/to/input_file.pdf}} --bbox-odd '{{left}} {{top}} {{right}} {{bottom}}' --bbox-even '{{left}} {{top}} {{right}} {{bottom}}' {{path/to/output_file.pdf}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/pdfcrop

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