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Scanned documents frequently come out sideways or upside down. Some documents mix portrait and landscape pages. The rotation tool fixes any page orientation and saves the change permanently to the file. ## How to Rotate PDF Pages 1. Open [pdfhub24.com/rotate-pdf](/rotate-pdf) 2. Upload your PDF 3. See thumbnail previews of every page 4. Select the pages that need rotating (or select all) 5. Choose rotation: 90° clockwise, 90° counterclockwise, or 180° 6. Click **Apply** 7. Download — the rotation is saved permanently ## Rotating Individual Pages vs All Pages **All pages:** Click "Select All" then rotate. Every page rotates by the same amount. Use this when an entire scanned document is consistently sideways. **Individual pages:** Click only the thumbnails of the pages that need rotating. Use this for mixed-orientation documents where some pages are portrait and some are landscape. **Specific page ranges:** Hold Shift and click to select a range, or Ctrl/Cmd to select non-consecutive pages. ## Why Rotation Needs to Be Saved Opening a PDF in Preview (Mac) or a browser and rotating the view doesn't permanently save the rotation. The next person to open the file sees it sideways again. The rotate tool permanently writes the correct orientation into the PDF file itself. ## Common Causes of Sideways PDFs **Scanner placement:** Feeding documents into a flatbed or sheet-fed scanner sideways is the most common cause. The scanner captures what it sees — if the document is turned, the output is turned. **Phone scanning apps:** Scanning a document in portrait mode on your phone sometimes captures in landscape orientation depending on how you're holding the device. **Mixed source documents:** Merging a landscape-format spreadsheet with portrait-format text documents creates a mixed file where some pages appear rotated.