Rotate PDF pages
Fix sideways scans for good. Rotate every page or just the ones you pick, then save.
- Nothing is uploaded
- Works offline after first visit
- Open source
- No watermark · limit is your device’s memory; phones hold less
Rotates all or selected pages of a PDF by 90, 180 or 270 degrees and saves the PDF with the rotation applied. It is free, needs no account and adds no watermark, and your files are not uploaded: everything runs in your browser on your device. The size limit is your device’s memory, and phones hold less; give the page a short while after one visit to save itself for offline use, and then it works offline.
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How it works
- Drop a PDF. Every page appears as a thumbnail.
- Rotate all pages at once, or click the arrows on individual pages.
- Save the rotated PDF.
In your browser, not on a server
pdf.js renders thumbnails so you can see each page. Rotating sets the page’s rotation attribute with pdf-lib, which is exactly what desktop PDF editors do, so the file is not re-rendered and loses no quality. The result is written in your tab.
Compared with upload-based tools: A sideways scan should take one click to fix, not an upload, a wait and a download page. The rotation here is instant because there is no round trip.
Verify it yourself. Give the page a short while after one visit to save itself for offline use, then turn off Wi-Fi or switch to airplane mode and run the tool again. Or open your browser's developer tools (F12, or Cmd-Option-I on a Mac), pick the Network tab, and watch it while you convert. The panel above does the same count for you.
Questions
Can I add text, a highlight or an image to the PDF too?
Yes. Edit PDF adds text, cover boxes, highlights, drawings and images to a page and rotates, deletes or reorders pages, all in your browser. It cannot change the text already in the file.
Is the rotation permanent?
Yes. Unlike rotating in a viewer, which only changes the display, this writes the rotation into each page so every PDF reader shows it the right way up.
Does rotating reduce quality?
No. Rotation is a page attribute in PDF. The page content is not re-rendered or re-compressed.
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