Rotate PDF pages

How to rotate PDF

1. Open your PDF and wait for the page thumbnails to appear.
2. Rotate all pages at once, or rotate single pages by 90 degrees either way.
3. Check the thumbnails look right.
4. Download the rotated PDF.

Why scanned pages come out sideways

Scanners and phone scanning apps guess which way up a page is. They often get it wrong with landscape pages such as spreadsheets and charts, pages fed in upside down, or photos of documents taken with the phone held at an angle. The result is a PDF where most pages are fine and two or three need turning.

That is why you can rotate pages one at a time here. Tap the rotate button on the thumbnail of each page that is wrong, and leave the rest alone.

Which way to turn it

• Page lying on its left side (top of the text pointing left): rotate clockwise 90 degrees.
• Page lying on its right side: rotate anticlockwise 90 degrees.
• Upside down: rotate 90 degrees twice in either direction.

The thumbnails update as you go, so you can check before you download. If a whole scan came out sideways, use rotate all pages instead of turning each one.

A saved rotation, beyond a viewing change

Many PDF viewers let you rotate the view, but that only lasts until you close the file. Rotating here writes the new orientation into the PDF itself, so it opens the right way for whoever you send it to, and prints the right way too. Text is not re-rendered, so it stays sharp and still searchable if it was before. The file is processed in your browser and never uploaded, which matters when the scan is a signed form or an ID document.

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