How to Check PDF Page Orientation
Select a PDF to classify each page as portrait, landscape or square based on its page dimensions. This is useful before printing, combining files or reviewing documents that may contain unexpectedly rotated or differently shaped pages.
Example
A 10-page report might show pages 1–8 as Portrait and pages 9–10 as Landscape because the final pages contain wide tables.
Factors That Affect the Result
The checker compares page width and height; it does not analyze whether visible text is rotated inside the page. A landscape-size page can still contain sideways content, and page rotation settings can affect how a viewer displays the document.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is orientation determined?
Width greater than height is landscape, height greater than width is portrait, and equal dimensions are square.
Does this rotate PDF pages?
No. It only reports page orientation.
Can one PDF contain mixed orientations?
Yes. Each page is checked separately.
Technical Details and Limitations
PDF orientation is usually inferred from each page’s width and height after considering page rotation. A visually rotated page can therefore differ from its raw media-box dimensions, so orientation checks should account for rotation metadata.
Technical Details and Practical Limits
Page orientation should consider both page dimensions and rotation metadata. A page stored with landscape dimensions can be displayed as portrait after rotation, so raw width and height alone do not always describe what the reader sees.