How to Rotate PDF Pages Online
A scanner that fed a page in backwards. A photo taken sideways and saved into a PDF. However it happened, sideways pages are one of the most annoying small problems in a document - and one of the quickest to fix.
How to Rotate a PDF Online
LovePDFImg's Rotate PDF tool fixes page orientation directly in your browser.
Upload your PDF, select the pages, rotate 90°, 180°, or 270°, and download.
- Open Rotate PDF.
- Upload your file.
- Select the page or pages that need rotating - not every page has to be the same.
- Choose the rotation direction and angle.
- Download the corrected PDF.
Rotating Individual Pages vs the Whole Document
It's common for only one or two pages in an otherwise correctly-oriented document to be sideways - usually from a single misfed scanner page. A good rotation tool lets you select pages individually rather than forcing you to rotate the entire file the same way, which would flip the pages that were already correct.
Common Reasons Pages End Up Sideways
- Scanner orientation - a physical page fed into a scanner in landscape when the rest of the batch was portrait, or vice versa.
- Photos saved as PDF - a photo taken in portrait mode that got embedded in the PDF at its original sideways orientation.
- Mixed source documents - pages combined from different sources that were oriented differently to begin with.
After Rotating
If you rotated pages as part of preparing a document for distribution, you might also want to add page numbers, merge it with other files, or compress it before sending.
Key Takeaways
- You can rotate individual pages without affecting the rest of the document.
- Rotate PDF supports 90°, 180°, and 270° rotation.
- Processing happens in your browser - your file is never uploaded.