Turn my PDF pages the right way up

When you need this

You photographed or scanned a document in landscape and every page arrives on its side. Somebody sends a receipt upside down. A portal rejects a document because it cannot be read in the orientation it was sent. Turning your head works for you; it does not work for the person reviewing your application, and some systems reject sideways pages outright.

How to use it

1. Open the PDF. You will see each page as it currently sits.
2. Rotate one page, or turn all of them at once if the whole document came in sideways.
3. Check the preview, then save.

What it does and does not do

• It rotates in quarter turns, which is what document pages need. It will not straighten a page photographed at a slight angle — for that, retake it with scan a document with my camera, which flattens the page properly.
• Nothing is re-drawn or compressed. The rotation is recorded in the file, so the quality and the file size stay exactly as they were and the text stays selectable.
• The rotation is permanent in the saved copy. Some phone viewers let you turn a page on screen without saving it, which is why a document can look right to you and arrive sideways for everybody else. Saving from here fixes it for good.
• A locked PDF needs opening first with take the password off my PDF.

If something goes wrong

• It looked fine on your phone but arrived sideways. Your viewer was rotating it on screen only. Rotate and save here instead.
• The page is tilted rather than sideways. That is a photograph, not a rotation. Use the camera scan tool.
• Only some pages are wrong. Rotate them individually rather than turning everything.