[edward]

I love paperless-ngx but I wish it had a rotate button. Some of my document scans are upside down.

[diarrhea]

I don't think I'd be comfortable with it having elaborate editing functionality. PDF editing in a browser is finicky, and an enormous bug fest.

I do PDF editing offline, on the desktop, then re-upload to paperless. Not the most integrated flow, but much more bulletproof. I want the PDFs themselves to be immutable once on paperless. Only metadata should be editable.

[ttyprintk]

It keeps an “original” PDF and presents a working copy for modifications like OCR and metadata. Rotation is important for OCR, so rotate-and-redo is a worthwhile feature.

[prometheanfire]

There is an issue about this, basically it's not going to happen because it is editing functionality. They suggest using another solution before import (build a pipeline).

[ndsipa_pomu]

It does have rotate clockwise/anticlockwise

[maweki]

Where? I'm pretty sure my instance doesn't.

[panzerboy]

In Settings I have "Use PDF viewer provided by the browser" checked and then see the screenshot:

https://imgur.com/TIOv1kK

[maweki]

The renderer does maybe. But it isn't saved and not used for OCR.

So paperless doesn't have rotating functionality.

[el_sinchi]

you can use an opensource tool for scanning, like NAPS2, which will let you rotate before you mail it to paperless-ngx