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Translate a PDF to English, keeping the layout

Translate a PDF into English from Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, French and other languages, keeping the layout: each line rewritten where it stood, with numbers and codes as written.

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Before and after

A French notice in English, line for line; the company name, the dates' digits and the phone number as written.

Original, in French
The same one-page Northgate Tool Hire notice in French: the workshop is closed for maintenance on mardi 10 mars 2026.(opens the sample PDF in a new tab)

The notice in French: a heading, two short paragraphs and a phone number.

In English
Workshop closed for maintenance
The workshop will be closed on Tuesday 10 March 2026 for annual
maintenance. The hire desk and returns are not affected.
Questions? Ask at the reception desk or call 020 7946 0110.

What this tool does

Choose a PDF in another language and get the same file back in English. You do not say which language it is in: that is worked out from the page. Each page is read as text and translated by an AI model a page at a time, and each line is written back where it was, in the document's own font when it has the letters, or else a closely matching one, at the same size and colour. Pictures, tables, lines and everything else on the page are copied from your file unchanged. Numbers, amounts, dates' digits, codes such as a GSTIN, PAN or invoice number, email addresses, web addresses and phone numbers stay exactly as written, and names written in another script are spelled out in English letters. A line whose translation would change a number or a code, or would not fit its space, stays in the original language and is marked. A page that could not be translated is not charged, and a scanned PDF is handed to the scanned translator before anything is priced. Documents written right to left, such as Arabic, Urdu or Hebrew, cannot be translated yet. The PDF you download says in its metadata that it was edited with AI, with a signed provenance manifest beside it; there is no visible mark on the pages.

The edited file is an AI-manipulated version of your document. It is marked as AI-edited in its metadata; using it to misrepresent a real document is prohibited by our rules.

What our French sample looked like in English

We ran this page on a six-line French notice (recorded on 24 September 2026). The English took the same width as the French at the same size, within 1%, and the company name and the phone number 020 7946 0110 stayed as written.

Check the dates in the result

The digits of every date are kept, and the model is told to keep their order and format too. In our recorded run it kept the digits but wrote le mardi 10 mars 2026 as Tuesday, March 10, 2026, month first, the American way. If your dates must read day, month, year, check them in the list of translated lines the result gives you.

What happens to your file

Deleted from our servers after 2 hours. We do not train AI on your files, and the terms of our AI providers do not allow them to; they may keep request logs for up to 55 days, longer for a request they flag for abuse.

Uploads and outputs are deleted after 2 hours, whether or not you download them. Provider request logs are kept for at most 55 days. Details on the privacy page.

Questions

Which languages can it translate into English?

Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi and Odia, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian, and many other languages written left to right. You do not say which one: it is worked out from the page. Documents written right to left, such as Arabic, Urdu or Hebrew, cannot be translated yet.

Why does it say my Hindi PDF's text can't be read?

Many older Hindi PDFs were typed in fonts such as Kruti Dev or Chanakya, which store Hindi letters as Latin characters: the page looks right, but to a program the text reads as nonsense, so it cannot be translated as text. The result says so for each such page, and those pages are not charged. The scanned PDF translator reads a page as an image instead, so it can translate them, at its own price, shown before anything runs.

What stays exactly as it was?

Numbers and amounts, the digits of every date, codes such as a GSTIN, PAN, IFSC, invoice or account number, email and web addresses and phone numbers are copied exactly as written. The model is told to keep each date's order too, but our recorded run wrote "10 mars 2026" as "March 10, 2026", so check the dates. Company and brand names stay as written, and people's and places' names written in another script are spelled out in English letters. A line whose translation would change a number or a code, or would not fit its space, is kept in the original language and marked in the result.

What does it cost?

3 credits a page for a PDF with text in it, and 5 credits a page for a scanned PDF, which the scanned translator handles. The price is shown before anything runs, and a page we could not translate is left as it was and not charged. You need a free account to run it — new accounts get 20 credits.

What happens to the file I upload?

It is deleted from our servers after two hours, whether or not you download the result, and it is not used to train anything. The text of each page goes to the AI provider that translates it; they do not train on it and keep request logs for at most 55 days, longer only for a request they flag for abuse. The PDF you download says in its metadata that it was edited with AI and comes with a signed provenance manifest; no visible mark is drawn on the pages. Identity documents, certificates and other papers we may not rewrite are refused before anything runs, and nothing is charged.

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