How to use Rotate PDF
Rotate one page, a range of pages, or every page in a PDF — 90°, 180°, or 270° increments. The rotation is applied at the document level so it sticks in every viewer (unlike browser preview rotation, which is local-only). Useful for fixing sideways scans, mobile photos saved as PDFs in the wrong orientation, or mixed-orientation batches from a scanner.
Good for
- •Sideways scans that came in portrait but should be landscape
- •Mixed-orientation documents from a flatbed scanner
- •Mobile photos saved as PDFs in the wrong orientation
- •Rotating just a few problem pages in an otherwise correct document
- •Pre-print cleanup so every page faces the right way on paper
Not good for
- •Arbitrary rotation angles — only 90° increments
- •Skew correction (use OCR's deskew pre-pass for that)
- •Rotating content but keeping the page frame fixed (use the PDF Editor)
- •Password-protected files (unlock first)
Walkthrough
Step by step
- 01
Drop the PDF
Tools menu → Rotate PDF. All pages render as thumbnails with the current rotation indicator visible on each.
- 02
Select pages
Click pages individually, drag to multi-select, or use the Select All / Select Landscape / Select Portrait quick buttons.
- 03
Pick an angle
90° clockwise, 90° counter-clockwise, or 180°. Thumbnails update immediately so you can verify before committing.
- 04
Or run auto-rotate
Click 'Auto-rotate all' and we sample text direction per page to flip sideways pages back upright. Good for messy scan batches; verify the thumbnails after.
- 05
Tweak per-page if needed
Auto isn't always right on graphics-heavy pages. Click any thumb to override with manual rotation; the rest stay as auto-decided.
- 06
Apply & Download
Click Apply & Download. The rotated PDF preserves all annotations, form fields, and bookmarks. Filename keeps the original with a -rotated suffix.
Tips
- •Auto-rotate uses the dominant text direction on each page — great for OCR'd scans, less reliable on heavily decorative pages.
- •Rotation persists across all viewers including print — unlike browser-level rotate which is view-only.
- •Need to rotate just one page in a 100-page PDF? Click only that thumbnail before applying the angle.
- •Hold Shift while clicking thumbnails for range select — faster than ticking 20 pages one at a time.
- •Mixed portrait/landscape document where some pages are already correct? Use Select Landscape, rotate, then verify.
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