Question

How to crop a page in a document to remove unnecessary image edges?

Answer

It is possible to crop an image of a document both in the PDF Editor and OCR Editor of FineReader PDF.

PDF Editor

In FineReader PDF 16: 

1. In the program select Open PDF Document and open the document.
2. In the Pages Pane select one or several pages and go to the Organize Pages tab. 
3. Click the Crop button on the toolbar: 
   
4. On the Crop toolbar select the desired cropping frame: Separate frame for each page or Single frame for all pages.
5. Move the frame edges to set the cropping frame manually or select a frame size of the appropriate size from the drop-down list.
6. After setting the cropping frame, select the document pages to be cropped and click the Apply Crop button or press Enter. 

In FineReader PDF 15:

1. In the program select the option Open PDF Document and select the document.
2. In the Pages pane, select one or several pages.
3. Select Crop Pages... on the main toolbar or in the Edit menu.
   
   
4. On the cropping frame pane select the cropping mode: Separate frame for each page or Single frame for all pages.
5. Move the frame edges to set the cropping frame manually or select the size of the cropping frame from the drop-down list. 
6. After setting the cropping frame, select the document pages to be cropped and click Crop.

OCR Editor

1. In the program choose Open in OCR Editor and select the document.
2. Go to the Image Editor by clicking on Edit Image:
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3. Select the Crop tool.
4. In the Pages pane, select one or several pages.
5. Select the size of the cropping frame or move the frame edges to set the cropping frame manually: 
6. In the Selection list choose the document pages to crop and click Crop:
   
7. Exit the Image Editor.

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