Rotate pages

90° / 180° / 270° · all pages or selected ranges

Drop one or more PDFs, pick a rotation angle and which pages to turn. Useful for fixing a sideways scan or flipping a single page that came out upside-down.

When to use this tool

The fix for sideways scans, upside-down phone-camera shots fed through a "convert to PDF" app, or specific pages that came out wrong in a long document. Rotation here means setting the PDF's page-rotation flag — fast, lossless, and reversible. You don't re-render anything; you just tell every viewer to display the page at the new angle.

Step by step

1. Drop the PDFs. The same rotation will be applied to every file in the batch.
2. Pick the angle. 90° clockwise is the most common (sideways → upright). 180° flips upside-down. 270° is the same as 90° counter-clockwise.
3. Pick which pages to rotate. Default is all. Use a range like 1,3-5 to rotate only certain pages.
4. Click "Rotate & download" — each input produces a name-rotated.pdf in the output list with a thumbnail of the new page-1 orientation.

Common use cases

• Sideways scan. The scanner fed a page in the wrong way — rotate the affected pages 90° to fix the whole document.
• Mixed-orientation report. A document with some landscape exhibits in the middle that came out rotated — list just those pages.
• Phone-camera "scans." An app that auto-PDFs photos sometimes leaves them upside-down; 180° fixes them.
• Reorienting before printing. Many printers will print the rotation flag literally, so flipping pages here saves manual fiddling at the printer dialog.
• Reading on a tablet. Some readers honour the rotation flag and others don't — locking it in at the file level avoids surprises.

Common mistakes

• Rotating everything when only one page is wrong. Take ten seconds to identify the misoriented pages and pass them as a range — it'll save you another rotation later.
• Forgetting that rotation stacks. Rotating an already 90°-flagged page by another 90° gives you 180°, not the same page. Use the viewer to confirm.
• Expecting visual content to change. If the page-image itself is rotated (e.g. baked-in scan rotation), only the orientation flag changes here — true content rotation needs a re-rasterise pass.

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