How to Rotate a PDF Page Free Online
PDF pages showing sideways or upside down? Here is how to rotate one page or all pages of a PDF free online in seconds — no software needed.
A scanned document where one page is sideways. A PDF from a phone photo taken in landscape. A report where the cover page is portrait but appendix pages are landscape. These are common problems and the fix takes about ten seconds. You can rotate individual pages or all pages at once, and save the corrected PDF permanently — the rotation sticks rather than being just a temporary view setting.
Rotating a page vs rotating the view
This distinction matters. Most PDF viewers let you temporarily rotate the view — you press a button and the page appears rotated on your screen, but when you close and reopen the file, it is sideways again. This is a display setting, not a permanent fix. To permanently fix a rotated page, you need to rotate and re-save the PDF itself. That is what the rotate tool does — the corrected orientation is saved into the file permanently.
How to rotate a PDF page free — step by step
The process takes under 30 seconds.
- 1Upload your PDF to the Rotate PDF tool.
- 2Choose to rotate all pages or select specific pages by entering page numbers.
- 3Select the rotation direction: 90° clockwise, 90° counter-clockwise, or 180° (upside down).
- 4Click Rotate and download the corrected PDF.
Rotating only some pages in a mixed PDF
Many PDFs mix portrait and landscape pages — a report with portrait text pages and landscape data tables, for example. The rotate tool lets you target specific pages by entering their page numbers (e.g. "3, 7, 12") or page ranges (e.g. "5-8"). This way you can fix the specific sideways pages without affecting the correctly oriented ones.
Why do pages end up rotated in the first place?
Scanned documents are the most common cause — placing a document sideways on a flatbed scanner, or scanning with a sheet-fed scanner that feeds pages in landscape. Phone photos converted to PDF also frequently have rotation issues because the camera sensor orientation and the phone's display orientation do not always agree. Some older PDF printers also produce rotated output depending on the page size settings.
Auto-rotate for scanned PDFs
If you have a large scanned document where you are not sure which pages are rotated, the PDF Auto-Rotate tool analyses every page and automatically corrects any that are not in the standard orientation. This is particularly useful for large batches of scanned documents where checking each page manually would take too long.
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