How can I fix a PDF document that was scanned backwards?

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Frank R. picture Frank R. · Jul 24, 2013 · Viewed 35.5k times · Source

I received an email containing a PDF document which was scanned backwards. I tried rotating it with PDF Complete version 4.0.65 but it didn't correct the problem. The user who emailed it doesn't have the original document to re-scan it correctly. How can I fix it?

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Emilien picture Emilien · Oct 1, 2015

If you want a Linux simple solution, pdftk is able to do exactly that:

pdftk input.pdf cat end-1 output output.pdf

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