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.
No files yet. Drop them above. They stay on your computer.
They stay on your computer. Nothing is 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.