1. A method, executed by a computer, for removing artifacts from a digitized document, comprising: receiving a digitized document, having an image format, and including content and an artifact; identifying a content boundary within the digitized document; determining an original background color of the digitized document; enhancing the digitized document after identifying the content boundary; removing the artifact by cropping the digitized document to the content boundary after enhancing the digitized document; and generating a derivative work from the cropped digitized document, including adding a new margin region around the cropped digitized document having a same color as the original background color.