Rotate PDF

Fix the Orientation of Your PDF Pages

Scanned documents and photos sometimes end up sideways or upside down in a PDF. If you have ever received a PDF where you had to tilt your head just to read the text, you know how annoying this can be. Rather than re-scanning everything or asking the sender for a corrected version, use this tool to rotate the pages to the correct orientation in seconds.

Common Uses

This tool is especially handy for fixing scanned documents that were placed on the scanner in the wrong direction. It also works well for correcting photos embedded in PDFs, adjusting the orientation of presentation slides, or fixing pages that were accidentally saved in landscape mode when they should be portrait. The rotation applies to all pages at once, so it works best when every page in the document needs the same correction.

How the Rotation Works

The tool modifies the rotation metadata of each page in the PDF without touching the actual content. This means text stays sharp, images keep their original resolution and file size barely changes. The page is simply displayed at the new angle. You are not re-rendering or re-encoding anything, which keeps the process fast and lossless.

What If Only Some Pages Need Rotating?

If your document has a mix of portrait and landscape pages and only some need correction, the simplest approach is to split the PDF first, rotate the pages that need fixing and then merge everything back together. Our Split and Merge tools work well alongside this one for that workflow.