How to Rotate PDF Pages and Auto Rotate PDF Pages using PDF.co and Zapier

Step 1: Log into Zapier Account

• First, log into your Zapier account and click the Create Zap button.

Step 2: Google Drive App

• Next, select the Google Drive app and choose the New File in Folder so we can fetch the file from the Google Drive folder.

Step 3: Google Drive Account

• Then, connect your Google Drive account to Zapier.

Step 4: Google Drive Configuration

Let’s set up the Google Drive configuration.

• In the Drive field, select My Google Drive.
• In the Folder field, enter the specific folder where the file is stored.

Step 5: Test Trigger and Result

• After setting up the Google Drive configuration, click the test trigger button.

Once the test trigger was successful, you may now add another app.

Step 6: Add PDF.co App

• Let’s add another app and select PDF.co. Then, choose the Custom API Call to make a custom API call to PDF.co API.

Step 7: Connect PDF.co Account

• Now, connect your PDF.co account by adding your API Key. You can get the API Key in your PDF.co dashboard. If you don’t have an account, kindly sign up to PDF.co to get the API Key.

Step 8: Setup PDF.co Configuration

Let’s set up the PDF.co configuration.

• For the PDF.co API Endpoint field, search and select v1/pdf/rotate/pages. This endpoint can change rotation, fix rotation, and delete pages of the PDF document. You can get the endpoint at this link.
• For the URL input parameter override field, select the Web Content Link from Google Drive.
• For the Input JSON field, input the JSON code with the Body payload parameters such as name, angle, and pages.
• For the name param, enter your desired output file name.
• For the angle param, add the angle degrees value; (90,180,270).
• For the pages param, enter the list of pages indices or range to process. The very first page starts at 0 (zero). To set a range of pages use the dash (-), for example: 0,2-5,7-.

Step 9: Test Action

• Now, let’s send the Custom API Call to PDF.co to process our request.

Step 10: Test Result

• Great! The PDF.co successfully process our request. Kindly copy the URL and paste it into your browser to view the output.

Step 11: Add Another App

• In this step, let’s add the PDF.co app so we can fix the rotated pages. Then, choose the Custom API Call to make an API call to PDF.co.

Step 12: Setup PDF.co Action

Let’s set up the Custom API Call configuration.

• For the PDF.co API Endpoint field, search and select v1/pdf/edit/rotate/auto. This endpoint uses AI to automatically fix the rotation of the pages inside a scanned PDF based on text analysis. You can get the endpoint at this link.
• For the URL input parameter override field, select the output URL from PDF.co PDF rotate pages.
• For the Input JSON field, let’s input the name param to add the output file name.

Step 13: PDF.co Test Action

• After setting up the configuration, click the Test action button to send a request to PDF.co.

Step 14: PDF.co Test Result

• Great! PDF.co successfully process our request and return a temporary URL. Kindly copy the URL and paste it into your browser to view the output.