Rotate PDF
Turn sideways or upside-down pages the right way up and save the rotation into the file itself. Rotate everything, or only the pages you name.
- Select a PDF. The tool reads it locally and shows how many pages it has.
- Choose how far to rotate, and optionally name specific pages such as 1-3 or 2,5. Leave the pages box empty to rotate the whole document.
- Click Rotate PDF. A corrected copy downloads and your original file is left untouched.
Why your PDF reader's rotate button doesn't stick
This is the problem almost everyone arrives here with. You open a scanned PDF, the pages are sideways, you press the rotate button in Preview or Chrome or Adobe Reader, and it looks correct — then you email it and the recipient sees it sideways again.
That happens because most readers treat rotation as a view setting. It changes how the page is displayed on your screen without changing anything inside the file. Every PDF page carries a rotation property in its own data, and only writing a new value into that property makes the change permanent for everyone who opens the document afterwards.
That is what this tool does. It reads each page's existing rotation, adds your chosen amount, writes the new value into the page, and saves a new PDF. Open the result anywhere — a different computer, a phone, a printer — and the pages are the right way up.
Rotating only some pages
Scanned documents are often inconsistent: most pages upright, a couple of landscape tables sideways. Leave the pages box empty and every page rotates by the same amount. Fill it in and only those pages change. The box accepts single pages, ranges, or a mix — 3, 1-4, or 2, 7, 11-13. Page numbers count physical sheets from one, regardless of any numbering printed on the page.
Because rotation is applied relative to each page's current angle, you can safely fix a mixed document in two passes: rotate the pages that need clockwise correction, then run the result through again for the ones that need the opposite.
Which direction do you need?
If the top of the text points to the right edge of the screen, you need 90° counter-clockwise. If it points to the left edge, you need 90° clockwise. If the text is upside down, 180° — direction doesn't matter for that one.
Scanned pages that are slightly crooked
Rotation works in 90° steps, which fixes pages that are wrongly oriented. It cannot straighten a page scanned at a slight angle — that requires deskewing, which means re-rendering the page and loses a little sharpness. If a scan is a few degrees off, the practical fix is to rescan it rather than to correct it after the fact.