Fix a sideways or upside-down PDF in one step. Choose the angle, and download a new PDF where every page is turned. Your document stays on your computer.
Rotate PDF is a free online tool by Hack the Hydra. Rotate all pages of a PDF by 90, 180 or 270 degrees and save the fixed file. Free, in your browser, no upload, no sign-up.
When to use it
Scanners and phone scanning apps often produce pages that open sideways. Rotating the PDF itself, rather than your viewer, makes the fix permanent: the file opens the right way up in every reader, email preview and print dialog.
How the rotation works
A PDF page stores a rotation value. The tool adds your angle to each page's existing rotation, so a page that was already turned by 90 degrees and rotated again by 90 ends at 180. Page content is not re-drawn, so there is no quality loss and the file size stays the same.
Rotating only some pages
This tool turns every page. To rotate just a few pages, split the PDF into parts with the Split PDF tool, rotate the part you need, and join everything again with Merge PDF.
How to use
- Drop your file(s) in the box above, or click to pick them.
- The result is built locally in a second or two.
- Click Download to save it.
FAQ
Does rotation change the quality of my PDF?
No. Only the page rotation flag changes; text, images and vector graphics are untouched.
Can I rotate a single page?
Not in this tool: it rotates all pages. Split, rotate and merge to handle single pages.
Which direction is 90 degrees?
Clockwise. Use 270 for a quarter turn counter-clockwise.
Is my file uploaded?
No. The page rotation is written by pdf-lib in your browser.
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