Rotating Pages

Scanned documents sometimes come out sideways or upside down depending on how the paper was fed into the scanner. Essal Office lets you rotate individual pages or all pages in a PDF so that the document displays correctly — without downloading and re-uploading the file.

How to Rotate Pages

1. Open the PDF document
2. Click Edit in the document toolbar to open the PDF editor
3. Select the Rotate tool (or enable rotation mode in the page editor)
4. Each page is shown as a thumbnail
5. Click the rotate button on any page to rotate it 90° clockwise
6. Click once: 90° clockwise
7. Click twice: 180° (upside down → right-side up)
8. Click three times: 270° (equivalent to 90° counter-clockwise)
9. Repeat for all pages that need rotation
10. Click Save or Apply to confirm

The pages are saved in the new orientation. Text extraction and searching are not affected by rotation — OCR was performed on the original content regardless of page orientation.

Rotating All Pages at Once

If the entire document is in the wrong orientation (for example, a landscape document scanned in portrait mode), you may be able to apply a rotation to all pages simultaneously. Look for a Rotate all option in the PDF editor toolbar.

Rotation Persists

Once you save rotated pages, the new orientation is stored permanently. The preview, downloads, and any future prints will show the corrected orientation.

When Rotation Is Not Enough

If a page is skewed (not exactly 90° off), simple rotation will not fully correct it. For pages with slight angles, OCR typically still reads the content correctly even if the visual appearance is not perfectly straight. If the skew is severe enough to cause reading difficulties, the best option is to re-scan the page and replace the document.