Tools / Rotate PDF
Rotate PDF
Turn the pages the right way up, without redrawing them.
- This tool has no upload step
- This browser-only engine does not send your file
- Every tool driven in a browser each release
Choose a PDF
or drop it here
How it works
- Add the PDF.
- Choose which way to turn, and whether to turn every page or only the sideways ones.
- Rotate, then download.
Turning pages without redrawing them
Rotation changes an instruction in the file, not the picture, so it costs nothing in quality however many times you do it.
Turn only the pages that are wrong
A scan often has one page in landscape among twenty in portrait. Rotating everything fixes one page and breaks nineteen.
Upside down is two turns, not one
A page fed into a scanner the wrong way round needs 180 degrees. Turning it 90 leaves it sideways the other way.
Check it in the viewer you will send it to
Some readers remember their own rotation and show you what you want to see rather than what the file says.
Rotate before you merge, not after
It is easier to fix one file than to find the page again in the middle of a joined document.
Where this is the wrong tool. This turns the page. It does not straighten a photograph taken at a slight angle: that needs the scanner, which finds the edges of the document and corrects the perspective.
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Questions
Do my files get uploaded?
No. The rotation happens in this page, in your browser. There is no upload step, and there is no server here that could receive one.
Does rotating lose any quality?
None at all. A PDF page carries its rotation as a property, so turning one changes a number rather than the picture. Nothing is re-encoded and the text stays selectable. The usual way people do this is to print to a new PDF, which quietly turns the whole document into images.
Why is the file the same size afterwards?
Because almost nothing changed. Only the rotation property on each page moved, so the size barely shifts. A tool that made your file much smaller or much bigger while rotating it did something else to it as well.
Can I turn only the sideways pages?
Yes. A scan often comes back with most pages upright and a few landscape. Choose to turn only the pages that are wider than they are tall, and the upright ones are left alone.
Can I rotate one page on its own?
Not in this tool. It turns every page, or every page of one orientation. For a single page, split that page out first, rotate it, and merge it back.
Can I rotate a password-protected PDF?
Not directly, and it is refused rather than worked around. Rewriting it would quietly strip the protection somebody chose to put on it. Open it with its password, save an unprotected copy, then rotate that.
Does it work without a connection?
Opening the page needs one, and so does the first rotation, because that is when this site hands over the PDF writer. The work itself uses no network, and your file is never sent anywhere either way.