Rotate crooked receipt PDFs so OCR engines read totals instead of diagonal noise

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Finance bots reject expense lines when JPEG-to-PDF pipelines capture receipts at odd angles.

Mobile capture apps sometimes save receipts with a few degrees of skew. When those images are wrapped into PDF, OCR services misread currency symbols and decimal separators. Normalizing to portrait before upload improves extraction accuracy without retaking photos.

Rotating skewed receipt pages in a PDF
Rotate in small increments and re-run a quick OCR sanity check on the merchant name.

Keep originals

Archive the unrotated export internally in case auditors ask for raw capture metadata.

LovePDF rotate

Batch-fix orientation in Rotate PDF before sending files to your expense automation inbox.

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