Rotate PDF Pages

Choose 90° clockwise, 180°, or 90° counter-clockwise, and the tool adds that turn to every page in the file. It adds to whatever rotation each page already has, rather than replacing it:

Pages that started at different angles keep the same difference between them. The download is called rotated.pdf.

To pick the right option, look at a sideways page: if the top of the text points left, choose 90° clockwise; if it points right, choose 90° counter-clockwise; if it is upside down, choose 180°.

A PDF page has a rotation setting that tells viewers and printers which way up to show it. This tool changes only that setting. The text, images and scan inside the page aren't redrawn or re-compressed, so a rotated scan is exactly as sharp as before, and text stays selectable.

Because every page turns, a scan with a single upside-down page needs a few steps. For a 10-page scan where page 4 is upside down:

1. With Extract Pages from PDF, save pages 1-3, then 4, then 5-10 as three files.
2. Rotate the single-page file by 180° here.
3. Merge the three files back together in order with Merge PDF Files.

Extracting and merging drop the document's bookmarks, so do this before adding any.

Unlike the extract and merge tools, rotation edits the original document and saves it again. Bookmarks, form fields, and the title and author stay in place. The file's producer is changed to pdf-lib and its modification date is updated.

Saving rewrites the whole file, so a digitally signed PDF will show its signature as invalid afterwards. Encrypted PDFs aren't decrypted, so results from those are unreliable. The file is processed on your device and not uploaded.