Rotate PDF

A sideways or upside-down PDF usually happens the same way every time: a page got scanned in the wrong orientation, or a phone camera captured a document while held the wrong way, and now pages in the file are turned 90 or 180 degrees from how they should read. This tool fixes that by rotating pages by 90, 180, or 270 degrees — or resetting them back to 0 — and saving the result as a new, correctly oriented PDF you can download immediately.

It's built for the everyday version of this problem: a scanned contract that came out landscape when it should be portrait, a receipt photographed sideways before being converted to PDF, or a report where only pages 5 to 7 came out wrong. You can apply one angle to the whole document, type a selection like 2, 5-7 to rotate just those pages, or switch to page-by-page mode and give each page its own angle in a single pass.

The rotation happens entirely inside your browser using the pdf-lib library — no upload to a server, no account, and no software to install. Because the file never leaves your device, this works just as well for sensitive documents like signed contracts or medical forms as it does for a casual scan you just want turned right-side up.

Most PDF readers, including Adobe Acrobat Reader and the built-in preview apps on iPhone and Android, let you rotate a page temporarily just to view it more comfortably — but that rotation lives only inside that viewer session. Close the file and reopen it later, or send it to someone else, and it snaps back to its original sideways orientation, because nothing about the file itself changed.

This tool does the opposite: it rewrites the actual page rotation data stored inside the PDF file, so the new orientation is baked into the document permanently. Once you download the rotated file, it will open right-side up in any PDF reader, on any device, for anyone you share it with, with no extra steps needed on their end.

Open this page in Safari on iPhone or Chrome on Android, tap the upload area, and choose the PDF from your Files app, iCloud Drive, Google Drive, or wherever it's saved. Once it uploads, choose whether to rotate all pages, a typed selection like 2, 5-7, or each page individually, then pick the angle — 90°, 180°, 270°, or reset to 0° — and tap the rotate button.

On Android, the corrected PDF saves straight to your Download folder with a confirmation notification. On iPhone, Safari commonly opens the result in a preview tab first; tap the Share icon there and choose 'Save to Files' to keep the corrected version in your Files app, or share it directly from that screen.

• Upload the sideways PDF from your device or cloud storage
• Choose all pages, a selection like 2, 5-7, or page-by-page control
• Choose 90°, 180°, or 270° clockwise rotation, or reset to 0°
• Tap Rotate and download the corrected file

If a page is rotated a quarter-turn from correct — text running up the side of the screen instead of across it — 90° clockwise usually fixes it, though if that makes it worse rather than better, the page actually needed the opposite direction, which 270° (three quarter-turns clockwise, equivalent to one quarter-turn counterclockwise) will correct instead.

180° is for pages that are fully upside down, where the text reads correctly but everything is flipped top-to-bottom and left-to-right. There's no harm in trying an angle, checking the downloaded result, and re-running with a different one if the first guess wasn't quite right — the original upload isn't modified, so you can experiment freely.

All pages mode applies one angle to every page at once, which matches the most common real-world scenario, where a scanner or camera captured an entire document sideways in one pass. Some pages mode takes a typed selection — 2, 5-7 uses the same comma-and-dash syntax as the Split PDF tool — and leaves every other page exactly as it was.

Page by page mode shows a grid of numbered chips, one per page. Tapping a chip cycles it through keep, 90°, 180°, 270°, and reset, so a document where page 3 is upside down and page 8 is sideways can be fixed in one pass with different angles. There is no visual thumbnail of each page, because rendering page images in the browser would require an extra library this tool deliberately doesn't load — instead each chip prints the page's current angle and the angle it will end up at, so you can plan the fix from the numbers.

Rotation is applied on top of whatever angle a page already carries. A page sitting at 90° that you rotate by another 90° ends up at 180°, not back at 90° — which is what you want when correcting a scan in two steps, and is exactly the detail many online rotators get wrong. If you'd rather start clean, the reset option sets the chosen pages to 0° regardless of where they were.

Occasionally a PDF page has its content drawn in one orientation but carries separate rotation metadata that some older viewers ignore or interpret differently than newer ones. In rare cases, a file rotated correctly here might still display oddly in one specific older application, even though the file itself is now standards-compliant.

If that happens, opening the downloaded file in a different, more current PDF reader (like a recent version of Adobe Reader, Preview on Mac, or a mobile PDF app) is usually enough to confirm the rotation is actually correct, and the issue is isolated to that one older viewer rather than the file.