Rotate PDF

Rotate a PDF

Fixes the whole document in one pass — the usual case when a scanner fed a stack in sideways. Rotation is written as page metadata, so no page is re-rendered and nothing is re-compressed.

Runs in your browserNothing is uploadedNo account, no watermark

Rotation is stored as page metadata, so nothing is re-rendered and no quality is lost. Leave the page field blank to turn the whole document.

How to rotate a pdf

  1. 1

    Drop in the PDF

    The file is loaded in the browser; nothing is uploaded.

  2. 2

    Choose an angle

    90 degrees clockwise, 180, or 90 anticlockwise. The angle is added to whatever rotation each page already carried.

  3. 3

    Pick the pages

    Leave the range blank to turn the whole document, or type something like 2-5, 9 to straighten only the sheets that came in sideways.

  4. 4

    Download

    The result opens the right way up in any PDF reader.

Genuinely lossless

A PDF page carries a rotation value that readers apply when displaying it. Changing that value leaves the page content completely untouched — no re-rendering, no re-compression, no quality loss, and the file size barely moves.

Rotation is cumulative

The angle you pick is added to each page's existing rotation rather than replacing it. A page already stored at 90 degrees, rotated by another 90, ends up at 180 — which is what you want when a document is a mix of orientations.

Whole document or a few pages

Leave the range blank and every page turns by the same amount — the usual case for a stack fed into a scanner sideways. Name a range instead and only those pages move. To see thumbnails while you decide, the page organiser in the editor rotates pages one at a time.

Questions

No. It changes a single number in the page's metadata; the content is copied through untouched. This is one of the few PDF operations that is truly free.