Auto-rotate PDF pages

Step-by-step instructions for automatically rotating PDF pages

Scanned documents often contain misaligned pages — some may be rotated 90° or 180°. Automatic PDF Processor detects the text orientation of each page and automatically corrects misrotated pages.

Typical use cases

  • Scanner correction: Automatic correction of incorrectly fed or rotated scans
  • Mixed orientation: Standardize documents with portrait and landscape pages
  • Batch processing: Correct large volumes of scanned documents with varying orientation
  • Archive preparation: Bring documents to uniform orientation before archiving

Step 1: Create a new profile

Create a new profile with a descriptive name such as "Scanner correction". Set up the monitored folder.

Profile for scanner correction

Step 2: Activate the "Auto-rotate Pages" task

Go to the task view and select the "Auto-rotate Pages" task. Activate the task.

Auto-rotate Pages task

Step 3: Configure OCR for non-searchable pages

If your PDFs also contain image-based pages (e.g., scans without prior text recognition), enable the "Use OCR for non-searchable pages" option.

Setting Description
Use OCR Enables text recognition for image-based pages to determine their orientation
OCR Language Select the document language for OCR analysis (e.g., English)
OCR settings
Note: Without the OCR option enabled, only pages with existing text are analyzed. Image-based pages remain unchanged.

Step 4: Configure storage location

Specify where the corrected documents should be saved:

D:\Scans\Corrected\<FileName>
Storage location for corrected documents

Result

After configuration, all PDF files placed in the monitored folder are automatically analyzed and misrotated pages are corrected.

Original Processed
Scan_001.pdf (3 of 5 pages misrotated) Scan_001.pdf (all pages correctly aligned)

Tips & notes

  • Choose the right language: The choice of the correct OCR language affects recognition accuracy. Use the main language of your documents.
  • Place before OCR task: Place "Auto-rotate Pages" before the OCR task, as correct page orientation improves OCR results.
  • Already correct pages: Pages that are already correctly aligned are not changed.

Other step-by-step instructions

Getting Started

Basic Tasks

PDF Editing

E-Invoicing & Archiving

Practical Examples


To the product page of Automatic PDF Processor
Try Automatic PDF Processor now for 30 days...     To the download page