Tools

Straighten PDF (Deskew)

A page scanned a degree or two off is measured and turned level, every page by its own angle, with the result shown before you save. The correction is baked into the page in place, so text stays sharp and bookmarks survive. Nudge any page by hand if the detector's guess isn't right.

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Frequently asked questions

How does it know a page is crooked?

It renders each page small and measures how sharply the ink lines up into rows at every candidate angle within ±15°: level text piles into crisp rows, tilted text smears across them. The angle with the crispest rows is the correction. It works on anything with lines of text; a page that is mostly a photo reports no tilt.

Does straightening blur the scan?

No. The page content is wrapped in a rotation rather than re-rendered, so a scan keeps every pixel and vector text stays sharp; only the reader turns it. Bookmarks, labels and links survive too.

What about the corners?

Turning a page's content leaves a thin triangle uncovered at each corner - the sliver every deskew costs. The page keeps its size; nothing of the text is cut off.

Is the PDF uploaded?

Nothing is uploaded: the file is opened and processed inside your browser and never leaves your device. Close the tab and it is gone.

How crooked does a page have to be?

Anything past 0.15 degrees is corrected; below that the page is left alone. That is about 1.5 points across the width of an A4 - under what the eye reads as crooked, and inside the measurement's own noise. So a straightened file fed back in is reported level rather than nudged again.

Can I set the angle myself?

Yes. Select the pages and step the angle by tenths of a degree; the thumbnails show the corrected page as you go. "Reset" returns to what the measurement found.

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