How to install pdfcrop in Ubuntu 14.04?

Solution 1:

pdfcrop is provided by the texlive-extra-utils package in all currently supported versions of Ubuntu. Open the terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install texlive-extra-utils  

Type pdfcrop /path/to/pdf_document from the terminal to run pdfcrop, and a new cropped pdf document will be created alongside the original pdf document.