Translate a PDF when a letter, a form or a rental agreement arrives in a language you don't read well. Drop the file, choose one of 45 languages and download the translation as a Word file you can read, edit, print or forward.
Most PDFs that land in your inbox are one of two kinds. Some have real text inside, like statements, invoices or forms exported from a website. Others are scans or phone photos of paper, like a letter from the landlord or a stamped certificate. Both work. With a scan, the pages are read first and then translated, up to 30 pages per file. A sharp, straight scan with good light gives the best result; a blurry or tilted page can lose words.
What comes back is a .docx, not a PDF. The text, headings, lists and tables are there, in the right order, but the page layout of the original, with columns, boxes and exact positions, doesn't carry over. For most letters that's fine, because what you need is to understand them. If the original also exists as a Word file, use the document translator with that file: Word documents are translated in place and keep their styles, tables and images.
A few pages usually take about half a minute. In our tests a 3-page PDF with text took 12 seconds and a 3-page scan took 44 seconds. A file can be up to 95 MB with up to 50,000 characters of text, about 20 pages of dense text.
The PDF is processed on our server and deleted from there after 24 hours. The translation is kept in the library in this browser.
AI does the translating, so treat the result as a working translation. It is good for understanding a letter and answering it, but not a certified translation for a court, a consulate or an immigration office. And if the letter needs a reply, the reply tool can draft one in the right language.