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Rotate PDF pages

Turn sideways or upside-down pages the right way up.

Processed in your browser. This file is converted on your device and is never uploaded.

Converter

.pdf up to 100 MB. You can also drag a file here.

Options

Choose a PDF to see its pages.

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About this tool

Scanners and phone cameras regularly produce PDFs with pages on their side, and some documents mix landscape and portrait pages in ways that make them awkward to read. This tool rotates the pages you choose, in quarter turns.

Rotation is recorded as a page property rather than by redrawing the content, so nothing is re-encoded and no quality is lost.

Supported formats and limits

Input
.pdf
Output
.pdf (application/pdf)
Output name
The original name with the new extension, for example data.pdf becomes data-rotated.pdf.
File size limit
100 MB
Processing
In your browser. The file is not uploaded.

How to use it

  1. Choose a .pdf file. Page previews appear below.
  2. Select the pages to rotate. Every page starts selected.
  3. Pick the rotation, then select Convert and download the result.

Limitations

  • Rotation is in quarter turns only. Arbitrary angles are not supported, and would require redrawing every page.
  • The rotation adds to whatever the page already carried, so rotating a page that was already turned 90 degrees by 90 more leaves it at 180.
  • Form fields, signatures, bookmarks, and internal links are not preserved.
  • Password-protected documents cannot be opened.
  • Previews are not rendered automatically for documents over 60 pages, because rendering them all can exhaust the device. The tool still works; you just select pages without pictures.

Frequently asked questions

Is my document uploaded?
No. The rotation runs entirely in your browser. The document never leaves your device.
Does rotating lose quality?
No. The page is not redrawn. A rotation flag is set, which every PDF reader honours, so the content is bit-for-bit what it was.
Why did my page end up upside down?
Because it already carried a rotation and yours was added to it. Rotate it again by the difference, or start from the original.
Where are the page previews?
Long documents do not render previews automatically, to avoid exhausting memory. There is a button to render them anyway if you want them.

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