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Rotate PDF Pages Permanently Online
Scanned documents and exported PDFs often end up oriented sideways or upside-down, or have landscape tables mixed with portrait pages. While most PDF viewers have a temporary rotate button that resets as soon as you close the file, this tool modifies the page orientation inside the PDF itself and produces a new file where the rotation is saved permanently.
How to Rotate a PDF
- Upload your PDF document from your device or paste a direct URL.
- Choose the rotation angle: Right (90° clockwise), Left (90° counter-clockwise), or Upside-down (180°).
- Leave the page range fields blank to rotate the entire document, or enter a From and To page number to rotate only a specific section.
- Click Rotate PDF! and download the updated document.
Rotating Specific Pages vs. Entire Document
If only a single page in your document is sideways (for example, page 4), enter 4 in both the From page and To page fields.
You can also chain multiple rotations — after rotating one section, click the Rotate button below the output preview to pass the updated PDF back into the editor and rotate another page range in a different direction.
Related Tools
- Need to trim margins after rotating? Pass your file directly to Crop PDF.
- Want to change the paper dimensions (e.g. Letter to A4) or force portrait/landscape layout? Use Resize PDF.
- To reduce file size for email or web upload, try Compress PDF.
- Extract specific pages with Split PDF, combine documents with Merge PDF, or convert pages to images with PDF to JPG and PDF to PNG.
- Looking to rotate an image or animated GIF instead of a document? Use our Image Rotator.