Rotate PDF
Turn pages in quarter steps and save the result, so the document opens the right way up for whoever you send it to, and stays that way.
Runs entirely in your browser. Your files are never uploaded.
How to use Rotate PDF
- 1Pick a PDF, or drag it onto the box above.
- 2Choose a quarter turn: 90 degrees right, 180, or 90 left.
- 3Leave the pages box empty to turn everything, or list the pages you want.
- 4Press Rotate PDF and download it.
The rotation gets saved
Most readers let you spin a page on screen, and most of them throw that away the moment you close the file. It's a view setting. The page itself carries its own rotation value, and this tool changes that value, which means the orientation travels with the document. It prints correctly, it opens correctly for whoever you send it to, and it survives being attached to an email.
If you've ever fixed a sideways scan in your reader, emailed it, and had someone reply asking why it's sideways, this is the difference.
Turns add up
The turn is added to whatever the page already had. A page your scanner marked as 90 degrees becomes 180 after another quarter turn, rather than snapping back to 90. That's what makes repeated corrections behave sensibly: four quarter turns put a page back exactly where it started, which is a slightly boring thing to verify but a genuinely annoying thing to get wrong.
Fixing one page in a stack
Scanned documents often have a single page the wrong way round, usually a landscape table dropped into an otherwise portrait report. Type 4 in the pages box, or 4, 9-11, and only those get turned. The alternative, splitting the document, rotating one page and merging it back, works but is three tools and a lot of clicking for something this small.
What doesn't change
Rotating doesn't touch page content or page size. A landscape page turned to portrait is still a landscape page being shown upright. The text hasn't been re-flowed and nothing has been re-rendered. Nothing is re-compressed either, so the file comes out at essentially the same size it went in.
Limits
- 100 MB per file.
- Quarter turns only. Arbitrary angles aren't something a PDF page can store.
- Password-protected PDFs need unlocking first.
Frequently asked questions
- Why does my reader show the page upright but it prints sideways?
- Because what you did in the reader was a view setting, not a change to the file. Saving the rotation, which is what this does, fixes printing as well as display.
- Can I rotate just one page?
- Yes, type its number in the pages box. You can list several, such as 2, 5, 9-11.
- Does rotating make the file bigger?
- No. It's one value per page, so the size barely moves.