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Rotate PDF

Rotate all or specific pages of a PDF by 90, 180, or 270 degrees.

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About the Rotate PDF

The Rotate PDF tool fixes sideways or upside-down pages by rotating them 90, 180, or 270 degrees clockwise — across the whole document or just the pages you name. Load a PDF, pick an angle from the dropdown (270° is labelled as 90° counter-clockwise, the direction most scans need), and choose "All pages" or "Specific pages…". For specific pages, type a list like 1,3,5-7; the tool parses it live and shows a badge preview of exactly which pages will change, reporting out-of-bounds tokens before you waste a run. Rotation is additive: if a page already carries a rotation, the new angle stacks on top, so a 90° file rotated another 90° becomes 180°. The result downloads as <name>-rotated-<angle>.pdf with the original untouched. Encrypted files get a specific password-protection error instead of silent failure. Scanned documents are the classic case — a scanner feeds pages landscape when they should be portrait — and this local PDF page rotation tool fixes them without uploading potentially sensitive paperwork to a cloud service, since pdf-lib does the work entirely in the browser.

Rotate PDF examples

Input
A 20-page scanned contract where every page is sideways, angle 90° clockwise, Apply to "All pages".
Output
contract-rotated-90.pdf with all 20 pages turned; the toast reports "Rotated 20 pages by 90°".
Note: All-pages mode is the one-click fix for a misconfigured scanner.
Input
A 6-page report with only page 4 upside down; angle 180°, Apply to "Specific pages…", Pages to rotate "4".
Output
report-rotated-180.pdf with just page 4 flipped; the parsed preview shows a single badge with 4.
Note: The preview lets you verify the target before rotating.
Input
Pages "1,3,5-7" entered for a 10-page document with angle 90°.
Output
Five pages rotated (1, 3, 5, 6, 7) in a single pass; the badge list confirms each one.
Note: Ranges and comma lists can be combined freely.

How to use the Rotate PDF

  1. 1

    Click "Choose PDF" or drop a file and wait for the page count to load.

  2. 2

    Select the "Rotation angle": 90° clockwise, 180°, or 270° clockwise (90° counter-clockwise).

  3. 3

    Choose "All pages" or "Specific pages…" in the "Apply to" dropdown.

  4. 4

    For specific pages, type a list like 1,3,5-7 and check the parsed preview badges.

  5. 5

    Click "Rotate & download" to save <name>-rotated-<angle>.pdf.

Common use cases

  • Correcting a whole batch of landscape-scanned contracts to portrait.
  • Flipping a single upside-down page buried in a 50-page report.
  • Rotating floor plans 90° for a real-estate listing document.
  • Preparing landscape charts inside a portrait deck for printing.
  • Fixing scanner-fed bank statements before archival.
  • Re-orienting pages in a merged PDF where one source was rotated.

Best practices

  • Use 270° (90° counter-clockwise) for scans that need turning to the left.
  • Verify the parsed preview badges match the pages you intend before clicking.
  • Remember rotation stacks on existing angles — check the result if a page was already rotated.
  • Keep the original file; the download is a new copy with -rotated- appended.
  • For mixed problems, run the tool once per angle group rather than over-rotating.

Tips

  • The Scope stat tells you at a glance whether all or custom pages are targeted.
  • Type ranges in either direction — "7-5" resolves the same as "5-7".
  • Use 180° for scans that flipped during duplex copying.
  • Re-download with a different angle if the first rotation lands wrong.

Frequently asked questions

90° clockwise, 180°, and 270° clockwise, which the dropdown labels as "90° counter-clockwise". These cover every practical orientation fix.

Choose "Specific pages…" in the Apply to dropdown and type a list such as 1,3,5-7. The parsed preview shows badges for each page the list resolves to.

Yes. The tool reads each page's current rotation and adds your angle modulo 360 degrees, so a page already at 90° rotated by 90° becomes 180°.

Comma-separated numbers and ranges, like 1,3,5-7. Ranges can run in either direction, and duplicate pages are applied once. Invalid tokens are rejected with a message.

No — the tool detects encryption and reports "This PDF is password-protected and cannot be rotated." Remove the password first with a dedicated utility.

No. The rotated result is a new download named <original>-rotated-<angle>.pdf, and your source file stays exactly as it was.

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