Rotate PDF
LocalRotate PDF pages 90°, 180°, or 270°
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How do I rotate pages in a PDF?
Add your PDF, choose the rotation angle and which pages it applies to, then rotate and download. The turn is added to each page's existing orientation, so a page already rotated 90° turned another 90° ends up at 180°. Rotation is written into the document by this browser tab, with no upload.
About the Rotate PDF
Rotate all or specific pages in a PDF document. Fix orientation issues or prepare documents for different viewing angles.
- Fix pages that arrived sideways from a scanner, a phone camera upload or a fax gateway.
- Turn landscape spreadsheets or engineering drawings upright so they read correctly on screen without tilting your head.
- Rotate only the pages that are wrong by entering a range, leaving correctly oriented pages untouched.
- Write a real page rotation into the file so every viewer honours it, rather than rotating the view in one reader and losing it in the next.
How to use the Rotate PDF tool
- 1
Upload PDF file
Select PDF file from your device or drag file into the upload area.
- 2
Choose settings
Choose settings such as Rotation, Pages before processing.
- 3
Rotate PDF
Run the Rotate PDF tool to create the PDF output.
- 4
Download the result
Download the finished file. The original file stays on your device and is not uploaded.
Is the rotation permanent or just a viewing setting?
It is permanent. The tool writes the rotation into each page's properties and saves a new file, so the pages open in the corrected orientation everywhere — other people's viewers, printers, and anything that reads the PDF programmatically. That is the difference from turning pages with the rotate button in a PDF reader, which frequently affects only your own screen unless you explicitly save.
Can you rotate only some pages?
Yes, and it is the common case. Documents assembled from a mix of portrait text and landscape spreadsheets or scans only need the sideways pages corrected. Name those pages and leave the rest alone — applying a blanket rotation would knock the correct pages out of alignment and mean a second corrective pass.
Which direction do the angles turn?
Rotation is clockwise, in 90° steps, and it is cumulative on top of whatever orientation the page already carries. Use 90 for a page lying on its left side, 270 for one lying on its right, and 180 for a page that is upside down — which typically means a scanner fed the sheet the wrong way round. If you are unsure, rotate, check the result, and rotate again; nothing degrades on repeated passes.
Are my files uploaded when rotating PDF pages?
No. Rotation is applied in memory in this tab and saved straight back to a download. Sideways pages almost always come from a scanner, which means the document is a scan of something physical — an ID, a signed form, a letter — and those are precisely the files worth keeping off third-party servers.
How to do this offline, on the command line
qpdf writes a real /Rotate value, exactly as this page does, without re-rendering anything.
qpdf
macOS: brew install qpdf · Debian/Ubuntu: apt install qpdf
qpdf --rotate=+90:1-z scan.pdf rotated.pdf+90 is relative, 90 is absolute. Replace 1-z with a range such as 2,5-7 to rotate only some pages.
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