Will rotating cost me quality?
No. The words and pictures on the pages are not redrawn or re-encoded; only the turn setting each page carries is changed, so the finished file is as sharp as the one you brought, and almost the same size.
PDF tools · pages
Rotate PDF
Turn the pages of a PDF the right way up and save them that way: every page, or one page range, by a quarter turn or a half turn. Everything runs in your browser; the document is never uploaded.
For a scan that came out sideways, a sideways sheet saved into a PDF, or a file a portal keeps showing you lying on its side.
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Pick the PDF
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Choose the turn
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Rotate and download
Drop a PDF on the tray, or click to pick one
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The turn
Which pages
File spec
- file
- none picked yet
The turn is a setting the file carries, like turning a printed sheet in the tray: the words and pictures are not redrawn, so nothing can lose quality.
Pick a PDF to begin.
How it works
Rotation is a setting each page carries inside the file, and readers turn the page because the file says so. This page changes that setting on the pages you picked and saves the file. The download is how we protect your privacy: the program that does this job is part of this page, loaded from this site, and your file is read into the page and never uploaded. The finished file is opened again and its turns counted, so the result line reports the file's own numbers, not the plan.
Honest limits
The turn applies to whole pages. It cannot straighten a photo that sits crooked inside its page, because that crookedness is part of the page's picture, not a page setting; that is an editing job, not a page turn. Turns add to any turn a page already carries.
A password-protected PDF cannot be opened by this tool. Take its password off first with the unlock tool, then bring the file back.
Questions
Only one page is sideways. Must I turn them all?
No. Pick "one page range" and give that page twice (from 3, to 3, for the third page). Just that page turns.
A page was already turned. What happens?
Turns add up. A page already carrying a quarter turn to the right, given another quarter turn to the right here, ends up carrying a half turn. If a page ends up wrong, bring the finished file back and turn it again until it sits right; nothing is lost by turning.
Where does my document go?
Nowhere. It is read into this page and rotated in your browser. Watch the network panel while it works if you want to check.