Rotate PDF
Choose which pages to turn, and by how much.
Rotating for good, not just for now
Most PDF readers let you turn a page on screen, but that is a view setting. Close the file and it is sideways again; send it to someone else and it arrives sideways for them too.
This writes the rotation into the document, so the page is stored turned. Every reader, every printer and every recipient sees it the right way up.
Only the pages that need it
Scanners routinely get a few sheets the wrong way round, particularly when a landscape table is mixed into a portrait document. Select just those pages rather than turning the whole file.
Rotation is applied relative to each page's current state, so pages already at different angles all move by the same amount rather than being forced to one orientation.
It costs nothing in quality
A PDF page rotation is a single number stored in the page's properties. The content is not re-rendered, re-compressed or moved — text stays text and images stay exactly as they were. There is no quality penalty at all, and the file size barely changes.
Common uses
- A scan where some sheets fed in sideways.
- Landscape tables or charts inside a portrait report.
- A document that prints the wrong way round however you set the printer.
- Fixing a file before sending it, so the recipient does not have to tilt their head.
Questions people ask
Is the rotation permanent?
Yes. It is written into the document, so every reader and printer shows the page turned — unlike rotating the view in a reader, which is not saved.
Does rotating lose quality?
No. A rotation is a single number in the page properties. Nothing is re-rendered or re-compressed.
Can I rotate only some pages?
Yes, select just those. Rotation is relative, so pages already at different angles all turn by the same amount.
Can I rotate by an arbitrary angle?
No. PDF page rotation only supports multiples of 90 degrees.
Is my PDF uploaded anywhere?
No. It is read and rewritten in your browser. This site has no server that could receive it.
Does it work with a password-protected PDF?
Not reliably. An encrypted file has to be unlocked before it can be changed. Open it in a reader, enter the password, and save an unprotected copy first.
Is there a file size limit?
Only your device's memory. There is no server limit and no queue, though very large files will take a moment and use a fair amount of RAM.
Your file is not uploaded
This is the whole point of the page, so it is worth being exact about it.
Every well-known site offering these tools works by sending your PDF to their servers, processing it there, and sending a result back. For a holiday itinerary that is merely unnecessary. For a contract, a payslip, a medical letter, a bank statement or a scan of your passport, it means handing a private document to a company you have never dealt with, to be held for an unspecified time on infrastructure you cannot inspect.
Nothing here is uploaded. Your browser reads the file from your disk, rewrites it in memory, and hands you the result. The site is a set of static files with no server capable of receiving a document.
The libraries doing the work are served from this site rather than borrowed from someone else's CDN, so using these pages does not make a request to any third party either. You can check that on the about page, which lists every request this site makes, read live from your own browser.
It also means it works offline once loaded, there is no file size limit beyond your own memory, and there is no queue.