Fix sideways or upside-down scanned pages
Feeding paper into a scanner the wrong way, or scanning a landscape table, often produces pages that are sideways or upside down. Readers then have to rotate their screen or give up on the page.
Rotate PDF turns the pages you choose by 90 or 180 degrees and saves a corrected copy. It runs in your browser, and only the orientation changes; the page content stays the same.
Orientation problems usually come from mixed paper: an A4 letter scanned together with a landscape table or a receipt fed in the wrong way. Fixing orientation before you share or archive the file saves every future reader the same effort, and it also helps text recognition, because OCR works far better on upright pages than on sideways ones. Once every page is upright, save the corrected copy under a new name.
Step by step
- Open Rotate PDF and add the scanned file.
- Choose the rotation direction or amount.
- Select only the pages that are wrong, or leave all pages selected if every page needs turning.
- Rotate, download and check the result.
Tips
- Upside-down pages need 180 degrees; sideways pages need 90 degrees left or right.
- Landscape tables are meant to be sideways; rotate them only if they are upside down.
- Combine with Delete PDF pages to remove blank sheets in the same tidy-up.
Questions
- Does rotating reduce the quality of scans?
- No. The page is turned, not re-scanned or re-compressed.
- Can I rotate only some pages?
- Yes. Use the page selection to choose which pages are turned.
- Is my file uploaded?
- No. Rotation happens in your browser.