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Rotate PDF

Straighten upside-down or sideways pages

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About Rotate PDF

A PDF scanned on a phone often opens sideways. Rotate the whole file or just the pages you choose — the rotation is saved into the file, so you will not have to turn it every time you open it.

How to rotate a PDF — step by step

  1. Upload the PDF.
  2. Choose how far to turn it — 90°, 180° or 270°.
  3. Type page numbers to rotate only some pages, or leave the box empty for all of them.
  4. Download the corrected file.

Why scans come out sideways

A scanner or a phone records which way up it was held, and viewers do not always agree on how to read that. So a document that looked fine on your phone opens sideways on someone else's computer, or prints rotated.

Rotating here writes the correct orientation into the file itself, so it stays fixed everywhere — including when an office opens it. Turning the page in your PDF viewer does not do this; that only changes what you see on screen and is forgotten when you close it.

Rotating only some pages

Documents scanned from a book often have landscape tables among portrait pages. Type something like 4,9-11 to turn just those, leaving everything else alone.

Frequently asked questions

Can I rotate only some pages?

Yes. Type something like 2,5-7 in the Pages box. Leave it blank to rotate everything.

Is the rotation permanent?

Yes, it is saved in the downloaded file.

Does it affect quality?

Not at all — only the page's rotation flag changes.

Is my file uploaded?

No. The rotation is applied in your browser.

Is the rotation permanent?

Yes, it is saved into the downloaded file and travels with it.

Does rotating reduce quality?

No. Only the page's orientation flag changes; nothing is re-encoded.

Can I rotate pages by different amounts?

Run the tool twice — once for each set of pages and angle.

My PDF still opens sideways.

You may have rotated the wrong way. Try 270° instead of 90°.

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