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Translate PDF

Translate document contents across 50+ languages while preserving layout.

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Step-by-Step Guide

How to use Translate PDF

1

Upload your PDF

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Select the PDF you want to translate.

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Select source language

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Choose the language of the original document (or select Auto-detect).

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Select target language

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Choose the language you want the document translated into.

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Translate

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Click "Translate PDF". Text is extracted and translated using the AI translation engine.

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Download the translated PDF

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Save the translated document with preserved layout.

Best Practices

Pro Tips

Tip 1

Machine translation may not accurately capture domain-specific terminology — review technical or legal translations carefully.

Tip 2

For documents where layout fidelity is critical, compare the translated output against the original layout manually.

Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Modern AI translation achieves high accuracy for common language pairs (e.g. English-Spanish, English-French). Less common language pairs may produce lower quality results.

Not directly — scanned PDFs have no text layer. Run OCR PDF first to add extractable text, then translate.

Document text is sent to the configured translation API. Review the privacy notice before translating sensitive documents.