Phone scans and ADF feeders
Rotate a sideways or upside-down PDF
A document photographed on a table, or a feeder that grabbed the sheet at 90°, is still a PDF, just unreadable. Apply 90°, 180°, or 270° clockwise to every page, or only the odd or even ones. Rotation is written in this tab. You download a new file.
Rotation is applied in this tab. Your PDF is never uploaded.
No files yet. Drop them above. They stay in this tab and are never uploaded.
When to use this
Use this for a document that is already a PDF and simply facing the wrong way: a phone photo saved as PDF, an ADF that rotated every other sheet, a table that should be landscape in a portrait file.
This is a whole-page turn (90 / 180 / 270), not deskew. Crooked photos that are still “mostly upright” need a different kind of software.
If you need to see every page before you decide, Organize shows thumbnails and can rotate one page at a time.
How to do it
- Drop the sideways or upside-down PDF.
- Choose 90° for a typical phone-on-table scan, 180° if it is upside down, 270° if 90° went the wrong way.
- Keep all pages, or pick odd/even for a mixed duplex feeder.
- Rotate and download the corrected copy. The original stays on disk.
Tips
- Odd/even shortcuts fix the classic “every other page is landscape” feeder mistake.
- If a page still looks wrong, the file may already store a scanner rotation. Try the other 90°.
- Add page numbers after the pages read the right way up, not before.
Questions
- Does rotating a scanned PDF upload it?
- No. The turn is applied in this tab. You download a new PDF.
- Can I rotate only the sideways pages?
- Yes. Uncheck “All pages” and pick the ones you want, or use odd/even.
- Will this overwrite my original scan?
- No. Save the download wherever you like. The file you dropped is not rewritten.