# Rotate a sideways or upside-down PDF

> Rotate a sideways or upside-down PDF scan in your browser. 90, 180, or 270 degrees, all pages or odd/even. No upload.

Phone scans and ADF feeders

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.

Free. There is no paid tier. No account. 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](https://lovethispdf.com/remove-blank-pdf-pages.md) shows thumbnails and can rotate one page at a time.

## How to do it

1. Drop the sideways or upside-down PDF.
2. Choose 90° for a typical phone-on-table scan, 180° if it is upside down, 270° if 90° went the wrong way.
3. Keep all pages, or pick odd/even for a mixed duplex feeder.
4. 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.

## Related

- [Trim scanner edges](https://lovethispdf.com/crop-scanned-pdf.md): Trim a page after it reads the right way up.
- [Remove blank PDF pages](https://lovethispdf.com/remove-blank-pdf-pages.md): Preview, then rotate or delete individual sheets.
- [Rotate PDF](https://lovethispdf.com/tools/rotate-pdf.md): The generic rotate tool, same angles.