Rotate PDF
Drop a PDF, pick a rotation angle, download a rotated copy.
Drop your file here
or click to browse — up to 1024 Mb.
How to rotate a PDF
Why rotate a PDF?
A sideways or upside-down PDF is one of those small frustrations that shows up constantly. Someone fed the office scanner with the sheets turned the wrong way. A phone-scanner app captured a contract in landscape because the phone was held sideways. A colleague sent a report where half the pages are rotated 90 degrees. Reading it means tilting your head or spinning your laptop, and printing it wastes paper on pages that come out the wrong way up.
Rotate PDF fixes the orientation in one click. It updates each page's /Rotate entry — a single instruction inside the PDF that tells a viewer how to display the page — so the content stream, fonts and images are left strictly untouched. The output is byte-equivalent to the original apart from a handful of integer keys, which means it's completely lossless: nothing is re-rendered, nothing is re-compressed. It runs in a Rust service over an encrypted TLS connection, your file is auto-deleted the moment the result is returned and is never shared. No watermark, no signup, no upsell.
Why scans and photos arrive rotated
It rarely means the document is broken — it's how the page was captured. A flatbed or sheet-fed scanner records the orientation the paper was fed in; put a page in sideways and it's stored sideways. Phone scanner apps are worse offenders: they save the orientation the phone was held at, so a document shot in landscape or with the phone rotated ends up turned even though the writing is perfectly upright. In every case the pixels are fine; only the display orientation is wrong, which is exactly what a rotation fixes.
Which angle do you need?
| Angle | Effect | Use When |
|---|---|---|
| 90° | Quarter turn clockwise | Top of the page points to the right |
| 180° | Upside-down flip | The page is completely inverted |
| 270° | Quarter turn counter-clockwise | Top of the page points to the left |
If you're not sure, glance at where the top of the text points. Pointing right needs 90; pointing left needs 270; fully inverted needs 180.
Rotating a mixed document, page by page
The current version applies one angle to every page, which is perfect when the whole file is off in the same direction — a common outcome of a single bad scan run. If your document is mixed, with some pages upright and others sideways, rotating the whole thing would only move the problem around. The reliable workaround is to split the PDF into individual pages, rotate the ones that need it, and merge everything back together in order. Per-page rotation is on the roadmap, but this split-rotate-merge routine handles any combination today.
Frequently asked
Is it free?
Yes, no signup, no watermark, no daily quota. Every rotation is free.
Which angles can I choose?
90 degrees (a quarter turn clockwise), 180 degrees (upside-down, for flipped pages), and 270 degrees (a quarter turn counter-clockwise, i.e. 90 the other way).
Is the rotation lossless?
Yes. We only update each page's /Rotate entry in the PDF — the text, fonts and images are bit-for-bit identical. Nothing is re-rendered or re-compressed.
Why do my scans come out sideways?
Scanners and phone-scanner apps record how the page was fed or how the phone was held. If the sheet went in landscape or the phone was turned, the page is stored rotated even though the content is upright.
Can I rotate a single page only?
Not yet — the current version rotates every page by the same angle. Per-page rotation is on the roadmap. For a mixed document, split it, rotate the pages that need it, and merge them back.
What if some pages are fine and others aren't?
Rotating the whole file by one angle would put the good pages wrong. Split the PDF first, rotate only the misoriented pages, then merge everything back in order.
What's the max input size?
50 Mb per file. Compress larger files first, then rotate the leaner copy.
Are my files stored?
No — files travel over an encrypted TLS connection, are processed in memory, and are auto-deleted the moment the rotated file is returned.
Does it handle scanned PDFs?
Yes. Scans are rotated exactly like any other PDF page — this is the most common reason people use the tool.