Rotate PDF
Rotate every page by 90°, 180° or 270°.
Add a PDF to rotate
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What is a PDF rotator, and who needs it?
A PDF rotator turns the pages of a PDF so they display the right way up. It fixes the common problem of a scanned document opening sideways or upside down, which makes it hard to read and looks careless when you submit it.
It is useful for students who scanned a marksheet with a phone app, job seekers uploading a certificate that opens sideways, and anyone sending a signed form or a bill to a bank or an office. You choose 90°, 180° or 270°, and the whole file is turned and downloaded. Your PDF is handled in your browser and is not sent to our servers. If you need to combine files afterwards, use our Merge PDF tool, or see all our PDF tools.
How it works
- Add one PDF by clicking the box or dragging the file in. The file name and its page count are shown
- Pick an angle: 90°, 180° or 270°. The button label changes to match your choice
- When you press the button, your browser applies the rotation to every page using the open-source pdf-lib library and downloads the new PDF
- Angles add up around a full circle of 360°, so 90° + 270° brings a page back to where it started
- 270° looks the same as turning a page 90° the other way
Worked example
Say you scanned a 4-page application form with a phone, and every page opens turned on its side. Add the file and the tool shows 4 pages. Choose 90° and download. If the pages are now upright, you are done. If they are turned the wrong way, rotate the new file by 180° or start again from the original with 270°, since 90° and 270° are opposite quarter turns.
Now take a 2-page certificate scanned upside down. Choose 180° and both pages are turned right way up. Because rotation does not redraw or compress the pages, a 1.5 MB file should still be about 1.5 MB afterwards, so a portal that accepts files up to 2 MB will still take it.
Frequently asked questions
Is my PDF uploaded to a server when I rotate it?
No. The rotation happens inside your browser, so your file stays on your device. This is helpful for documents such as marksheets, bank statements and ID proofs. It is still wise to avoid using any website for sensitive files on a shared or public computer.
Can I rotate only one page instead of the whole PDF?
No. This tool applies the chosen angle to every page of the file. If only a few pages are sideways, you would need a tool that works page by page, or you can rotate the whole file and then fix the other pages elsewhere.
Which angle should I choose?
Choose 90 degrees for a page that is turned a quarter of the way, 180 degrees for a page that is upside down, and 270 degrees for a page that is turned a quarter the other way. If you are not sure, try one angle, open the downloaded file, and run the tool again if the pages are still not upright.
Will rotating change the quality or size of my PDF?
Rotation only changes the direction in which the pages are shown, so the text and images are not redrawn or compressed. The file size should stay about the same as the original.
Can I rotate a password-protected PDF?
Usually not. A file locked with a password or encryption may fail to open here. Remove the protection in the program you used to create it, save a fresh copy, and add that copy to the tool.
Limitations and accuracy
This tool works on one PDF at a time and rotates all of its pages by the same angle. It cannot rotate selected pages, preview the result before download, or straighten pages that are only slightly tilted, since it turns pages in steps of 90° only. Encrypted or damaged files may not open, and very large PDFs can be slow on a phone or an older computer because they are processed in your device's memory. The file sizes in the example are rough estimates. Always open the downloaded PDF and check every page before you submit it anywhere important. This tool is for information only.