How to Straighten PDF in Adobe Acrobat

Updated on:

June 5, 2026

By:

Madhav Bhandari

Use this interactive demo to learn how to straighten PDF documents in Adobe Acrobat.

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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to straighten pdf in Adobe Acrobat

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Open your PDF in Adobe Acrobat.
On the right-side pane, click More Tools.
Click Optimize PDF.
Click Optimize Scanned Pages.
Configure optimization options quality. Make sure that Deskew is turned on.
Click OK.‍
Click Close to exit Optimize PDF options.

📌 Why this matters

Crooked PDFs make you look unprofessional and create accessibility barriers for screen readers that rely on proper text alignment. When you straighten scanned documents, you're not just fixing a visual annoyance—you're ensuring the text can be properly selected, searched, and extracted for other applications.

This becomes critical when you need to repurpose content for presentations, reports, or digital archives. Straightened documents also compress more efficiently since the alignment allows better pattern recognition in PDF optimization algorithms.

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