Rotate PDF Online

How to Rotate PDF Online

Having pages that are improperly oriented can make reading lengthy documents incredibly frustrating. We built this tool to make it incredibly simple to change pdf orientation directly in your browser without compromising your safety or document quality.

Follow these simple steps:

1. Upload your document: Drag and drop or browse to select the PDF file from your device.
2. Preview pages: Our visual grid will generate thumbnails for every page in your document.
3. Choose what to rotate: You can apply a global rotation to all pages simultaneously, or use the rotate selected pages feature for specific corrections.
4. Apply rotation: Click to rotate PDF 90 degrees left or right, or flip them 180 degrees. The preview will update instantly to reflect changes.
5. Download: Click the Download button to generate your new, properly oriented PDF file.

Why PDF Pages Appear Sideways

It is very common to find files that need their orientation fixed. There are a few major reasons why your PDF is sideways or upside down:

• Scanned documents: Feeding paper into a physical scanner backwards often results in an upside-down page within the PDF composite.
• Mobile camera scans: Scanning apps on smartphones frequently misinterpret the orientation of the phone, saving vertical documents as horizontal.
• Incorrect scanner orientation: Physical scanners sometimes default to landscape mode for A4-sized papers.

Rotate PDF vs Re-Scan Document

We always recommend using an online pdf page rotator instead of re-scanning a document. It saves you immense amounts of time. Furthermore, changing the orientation digitally doesn't cause any degradation or quality loss, whereas passing a document through a scanner a second time creates a completely new, potentially lower-quality impression. Re-scanning wastes both your physical time and computing resources. Fixing sideways PDFs can be done in merely five clicks.