Runs on your device
Rotate PDF
Turn a sideways scan the right way up. Rotate every page at once, or fix single pages one by one, and save a PDF that opens the right way round everywhere.
How to rotate a PDF
Add your PDF
Drag the file onto the box above, or click it to pick it from your computer. One document at a time — rotation is a correction to a single file, so there is nothing to arrange between several.
Turn the pages
Use the buttons above the grid to turn every page together, or the button on a single page to turn just that one. Turns add up: press 90° twice and the page is at 180°. If the document mixes upright and sideways pages, try Straighten landscape pages first and correct what it gets wrong.
Check the previews
Each page shows the rotation you have set, so what you see in the grid is what the saved file will look like. Nothing has been written yet at this point — the document on your disk is untouched until you save.
Save the rotated PDF
Choose Rotate PDF and download the result. The rotation is stored in the document itself, not remembered by a viewer, so the pages open the right way up for whoever you send it to.
What you get
The page data is never touched
Rotating a PDF sets one number on each page; it does not redraw anything. Text stays selectable, vector artwork stays sharp at any zoom, and images are not re-encoded, so a rotated scan is pixel for pixel the scan you started with.
Comments and form fields survive
Your document is edited in place rather than rebuilt page by page, so annotations, filled-in form fields, links, bookmarks and attachments all come through. Tools that rotate by copying pages into a new file quietly lose them.
Your file stays with you
The rotation happens in your browser, on your own device. The document is never uploaded, so there is no copy on a server of ours to leak, to hand over, or to forget to delete.
Free, no account, no watermark
Nothing to sign up for and nothing stamped onto your pages. Open the page, turn what needs turning, close the tab.
Frequently asked questions
Will the rotation still be there when someone else opens the file?
Yes. The rotation is written into the document as each page's own /Rotate value, which is part of the PDF standard and is what every reader uses to decide which way up to draw the page. That is different from the rotate button in most PDF viewers, which only turns the page on your screen and forgets it when you close the file. Because this is saved into the document, the person you send it to sees the pages the way you left them.
Does rotating a PDF reduce its quality?
No. Rotation changes a single number on each page and nothing else — no image is re-encoded and no text is redrawn. A rotated page is bit-for-bit the same content as before, just marked to be displayed a quarter, half or three-quarter turn round. This is the one PDF operation where 'no quality loss' is literally true rather than a marketing claim, which is also why the file size barely changes.
Will my comments, form fields and bookmarks survive?
Yes. The tool opens your document, changes the rotation on the pages you chose, and saves the same document. It does not copy your pages into a new file, which is how rotation tools usually lose annotations, filled-in form data, links and attachments — those things live alongside the pages rather than inside them, and a page-by-page copy leaves them behind. Nothing here is rebuilt, so nothing is dropped.
Why did 'Straighten landscape pages' turn a page upside down?
Because it can only see the shape of the page, not which way up the writing is. A PDF page records its width, its height and its rotation; there is nothing in the file that says where the top of the text is. So that button finds every page that is wider than it is tall and turns it a quarter clockwise, which is right for scans fed in the usual direction and wrong for some others. It is meant as a starting point: the result is on the thumbnails straight away, and any page it gets wrong can be turned again on its own.
Can I rotate only some of the pages?
Yes. Every page in the grid has its own rotate button, and turning one page has no effect on the others. You can also combine the two: turn everything 90 degrees, then correct the two pages that were already the right way up. Pages you never touch are written back exactly as they were, including any rotation the document already carried.
The document already looks rotated. Will this add to it or replace it?
It adds. Many PDFs already carry a rotation of their own — scanners and phone cameras set one routinely — and the previews here show the page as it looks today, with that rotation already applied. When you turn a page 90 degrees, that quarter is added to whatever the page already had, so a page stored at 90 ends up at 180. This is what makes the previews trustworthy: what you see in the grid is what you get.
How large a PDF can I rotate?
We set no limit of our own. The work happens in your browser, so the ceiling is your device's memory rather than a quota we impose, and rotation is one of the cheapest things you can do to a PDF — there is no image processing and no page copying, so a thousand-page document is mostly just the time to read and write the file. A very large document on a phone is the case most likely to run out of memory; the same file on a laptop is usually fine.