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PDF Crop Pages

Crop PDF pages by removing margins from edges

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

# 1) Upload each file first → returns { filePath }
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/upload/pdf-crop-page' \
  -F 'file=@/path/to/sourceFile.ext'

# 2) Call the tool with the returned filePath values
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/pdf-crop-page' \
  -F 'sourceFile=/public/samples/pdf/sample.pdf' \
  -F 'cropLeft=50' \
  -F 'cropTop=50' \
  -F 'cropRight=50' \
  -F 'cropBottom=50' \
  -F 'pageRange='

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/pdf-crop-page

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
sourceFile	fileupload required	Yes	—
cropLeft	number	No	Points to crop from left edge (72 points = 1 inch)
cropTop	number	No	Points to crop from top edge (72 points = 1 inch)
cropRight	number	No	Points to crop from right edge (72 points = 1 inch)
cropBottom	number

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-pdf-crop-page": {
      "name": "pdf-crop-page",
      "description": "Crop PDF pages by removing margins from edges",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=pdf-crop-page",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "pdf-crop-page",
    "arguments": {
  "sourceFile": "/public/samples/pdf/sample.pdf",
  "cropLeft": 50,
  "cropTop": 50,
  "cropRight": 50,
  "cropBottom": 50,
  "pageRange": ""
}
  }
}

Chain multiple tools in one session with a comma-separated toolId list, e.g. /mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp (max 20).

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