Rotate PDF pages

Runs on your device · Your file never leaves your device.

Scanned documents often come out sideways because the page went through the feeder the wrong way. Pick the pages, choose 90°, 180° or 270°, and download a PDF that opens the right way up.

Rotation is stored as a property of the page rather than by redrawing it, so nothing is re-encoded and no quality is lost. The file you get back is the same document, correctly oriented.

You can rotate the whole document at once or select individual pages from the thumbnails — useful when a scan mixes portrait and landscape originals.

How to rotate PDF pages

  1. Add the PDF that is sideways or upside down.
  2. Rotate every page at once, or click individual pages to fix only the ones that are wrong.
  3. Press Rotate and download the corrected file.

Supported formats and limits

Input
PDF (any version)
Output
PDF with corrected page rotation
Angles
90°, 180°, 270°
Scope
All pages together, or page by page
Quality
Lossless — only the rotation flag changes
Where it runs
In your browser; nothing uploaded

Not for: Straightening a crooked scan — this turns pages in 90° steps, it does not deskew a few degrees of tilt.

Which way each angle turns the page

90° right turns the page clockwise, so its top edge moves to the right. 270° left turns it the other way, and 180° turns it upside down. To choose, look at where the top of the text points: if it points left, the page needs 90° right; if it points right, it needs 270° left. The thumbnails of the pages that will turn show the result before you press the button.

The turn is added to whatever rotation the page already has. A page that a scanner has already marked as turned is turned further from where it is now, not reset, so judge by the thumbnail.

Pages that need different turns

Each run applies one angle. With nothing selected, the button turns every page of the document; tap pages, or type their numbers, to turn only those. If some pages need 90° right and others 270° left, turn the first group, download the result, load that downloaded file and turn the second group. Each run starts from the file you loaded, so the second run keeps the first run's work only when you load the downloaded copy.

Choosing pages works as on /delete-pdf-pages: tap the thumbnails, or type numbers such as 3, 8-10, which is the only way in a document of more than 250 pages.

What the turned file looks like

Only the rotation entry of each chosen page changes. Text stays selectable and searchable, and links, form fields and comments turn with their page, because a viewer applies the rotation to everything on it. The file is named after the original with "-rotated" added, for example report-rotated.pdf.

Turning changes the direction of a page, not its size: a landscape page turned by 90° becomes a portrait page with the same dimensions. If the turned pages must all end up on one paper size, use /change-pdf-page-size afterwards.

Frequently asked questions

Are my files uploaded to a server?
No. This conversion runs inside your browser using your own device’s processing power, and the file is not uploaded. Once a tool has been used once (video, text recognition and background removal download their engine from this site the first time), it keeps working when your connection drops.
Does rotating reduce quality?
No. The rotation is recorded as page metadata, so the page content is untouched and the file is not re-compressed.
Why does my viewer still show it sideways?
A few older viewers ignore the rotation flag. Opening the downloaded file in a current browser or PDF reader will show it correctly.

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