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To rotate a PDF for good, drop it here, pick 90, 180 or 270 degrees clockwise and download the corrected file. The new orientation is stored inside the PDF, and every reader shows the page upright from then on.
Turning the view in a PDF reader is not the same thing. That only changes what one screen shows, and the page is back on its side the next time the file opens.
Turning only some pages
Leave the page field empty and every page turns. To turn a selection, list it with commas and hyphens.
A contract scanned on both sides can come out with every back page upside down. Enter 2,4,6,8 with 180 degrees and those pages flip while the fronts stay put. A portfolio with three wide photos on pages 9 to 11 needs 9-11 and a quarter turn.
One run applies one angle. When pages need different turns, run the tool twice: first page 3 at 90 degrees, then page 7 of the new file at 270.
How to rotate a PDF and keep the change
- Drag your PDF, or a folder of them, onto the page.
- Pick how far to turn: a quarter, half or three-quarter turn clockwise.
- Leave the page field empty for all pages, or type a list such as
2,4,6. - Click Rotate.
- Download the corrected PDF, or the ZIP for a batch.
A whole folder of sideways scans
When a feeder sends a full stack of forms through the wrong way, drop the folder rather than one file at a time. In the browser there is no batch cap, no daily allowance and no page cap. Each PDF can be up to 50 MB free, or 500 MB with Pro, and the speed of your device decides how quickly the set is done. Take the results file by file or as one ZIP.
If the scans also need compressing or renaming, put the rotation into a pipeline and run every step over the set at once. A pipeline is free to try on 3 files. Pro, at EUR 7.99 a month or EUR 59 a year, runs it on up to 500, and credits cover a larger one-off run without a subscription.
Why nothing is lost
Each page of a PDF carries a rotation value. We change that number and leave the drawing on the page alone. Text, photos and vector graphics are not rendered again or compressed, so they keep their exact quality, and the file stays almost the same size.
The whole job runs in your browser and no upload takes place, so our servers never see the file.
FAQ
Can this straighten a scan that is a few degrees off?
No. It turns pages in quarter steps only. Straightening a tilted scan is called deskewing, and it works by redrawing the page, which this tool never does.
Will the page look right when someone else opens the file?
Yes. The turn is now part of the file, not a setting in one viewer, so other people see the page upright too.
One app still shows the page sideways. Why?
Some viewers show a cached thumbnail. Quit the file and open it again, or look at it in a different reader.
Can I rotate photos instead of PDF pages?
Yes, with Rotate Image, which works on picture files.