Rotate PDF — free, private, in your browser

How to rotate a PDF

Rotating a PDF — every page or just the crooked ones — takes seconds, and everything happens right here in your browser:

1. Add your PDF. Drag a PDF onto the drop zone above, or click Choose PDF to pick one. The tool reads it locally and shows the total page count.
2. Choose the pages. Keep All pages selected to rotate the whole document, or pick Selected pages and type a selection like 1-3,5 to rotate only those.
3. Pick a direction. Choose 90° right (clockwise), 90° left (counter-clockwise), or 180° to flip upside-down pages the right way up.
4. Rotate & download. Click the button and your corrected rotated.pdf downloads instantly. Your PDF was never uploaded — the whole operation ran on your own device.

Why rotate PDF pages

• Fix sideways scans. Documents scanned in landscape often open rotated — turn them upright so they read and print correctly.
• Correct phone photos. Pages captured with a phone camera can come in at the wrong angle; a quick rotation sets them straight.
• Mixed orientations. Rotate just the few pages that are off without touching the rest of the document.
• Privacy by design. Because this tool is fully client-side, confidential contracts and records never touch a server.

Private and offline by design

Most online "rotate PDF" sites upload your document to their servers to process it. This one doesn't. It uses the open-source pdf-lib library to read your PDF and write the new orientation directly in your browser, adding your chosen rotation on top of each page's existing angle — so your file never leaves your device, and you can even disconnect from the internet after the page loads and it still works. For heavier, repeatable jobs on Windows — editing the text inside a PDF, merging and splitting documents, running OCR on scans, or processing folders of files in bulk — try Kaizen OCR & PDF.

Frequently asked questions

Yes — completely free and unlimited, with no signup and no watermarks. It runs locally in your browser, so you can rotate as many PDFs as you like.

No. Everything happens entirely inside your browser using JavaScript. Your PDF never leaves your device and is never sent to any server, which keeps confidential documents fully private.

Choose the Selected pages option and type the pages you want to rotate, such as 1-3,5. Pick a direction — 90° clockwise, 90° counter-clockwise, or 180° — and the tool rotates only those pages, then saves a new PDF.

Yes. The tool writes the new orientation into the saved PDF using pdf-lib, adding your rotation on top of each page's existing rotation, so the pages stay rotated in any PDF viewer.