🔄 Rotate PDF

Rotate all pages in your PDF to the correct orientation.

🔄 Rotate PDF

Rotate all pages in your PDF to the correct orientation.

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Why PDFs End Up Sideways

A rotated PDF almost always comes from a scanner or a phone camera. Flatbed scanners save landscape pages exactly as they're fed in, so a document scanned sideways stays sideways in the file. Phone camera scans are worse — some apps write an EXIF "this should be rotated" flag instead of actually rotating the pixels, so the page looks fine in one viewer and sideways in another. This tool re-renders the page itself, so once it's fixed, it stays fixed everywhere.

Common Situations

Multi-page scans where a few pages are sideways and the rest aren't (common with double-sided scanning), a landscape spreadsheet or architectural drawing that got saved in a portrait document, or a PDF that opens correctly on your phone but sideways on a desktop viewer because of the EXIF-flag issue above.

How to Use

1. Upload your PDF.
2. Choose the rotation angle — 90° clockwise, 180°, or 90° counter-clockwise.
3. Click Rotate PDF. This applies to every page in the file.
4. Download the corrected file.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does rotating reduce image quality?

No — rotation changes the page's orientation metadata and re-renders the content; it doesn't recompress images or text.

Can I rotate only specific pages, not the whole document?

This tool rotates every page by the same angle. If only some pages need fixing, split those pages out first with Split PDF, rotate them separately, then merge with Merge PDFs.

My PDF looks upright in one app but sideways in another — why?

That's the EXIF-rotation-flag issue described above. Running it through this tool bakes in a real, consistent orientation.

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