Straighten pages that scanned in sideways
Quick answer
Rotate every page of a PDF by 90°, 180° or 270° and download the corrected file. It exists because phone photos and document feeders routinely produce filings that arrive rotated, which reviewers reject or struggle to read.
When you’d use this
A client photographed their documents sideways
Phone cameras record orientation inconsistently, so a perfectly readable photo becomes a rotated PDF page. Rotating before filing means nobody has to turn their monitor.
A feeder loaded landscape
One misloaded stack rotates an entire scan run. One pass fixes the whole file.
How to do it
- 1Open the PDF tools and choose Rotate.
- 2Select the PDF and pick 90°, 180° or 270°.
- 3Run it and download the corrected file.
What it doesn’t do
Rotation applies to every page in the file, not to selected pages, and it does not straighten a page that was scanned at a slight angle — it turns pages in 90° steps rather than de-skewing them.
Frequently asked questions
How do I rotate a PDF and save it that way?
Open Filly's PDF tools, choose Rotate, select the file and the angle, then download. The rotation is saved into the file itself, so it stays corrected for whoever opens it next — unlike rotating the view in a PDF reader.
Can I rotate only some pages?
Not currently — rotation applies to the whole file. If only part of a document is affected, split out the affected pages, rotate them, then merge the file back together.
Will rotating reduce the scan quality?
No. The page content is not re-rendered or re-compressed; only its orientation is changed, so a scan is exactly as legible after as before.
The tools are the side of it
Filly is a form filler first: save a client’s details once and every form you upload afterwards fills itself from that profile. These PDF tools exist because the paperwork around a filing needs assembling before and after it’s filled.
- Free plan — 10 forms, 5 clients, 10 fills a month, no card
- Reads any PDF or DOCX, including scans via OCR
- 18 official IRS, USCIS and SSA forms built in