I built PDF Translate because dealing with multilingual PDFs has always been way more painful than it should be. In my own work I constantly had to translate reports, contracts, documentation and research papers. Most existing tools either: broke the layout, forced me to copy-paste text page by page, had very small file / page limits, or felt too “generic” (built for text, not for real PDFs). I wanted something that was laser-focused on PDFs: upload once, pick languages, get back a translated document that still looks like the original – headings, paragraphs, tables, etc. At the same time, it had to be simple enough that a non-technical person could understand it in a few seconds. The approach was: start with one clear job (AI PDF translation in the browser) and do it really well. I iterated a lot on speed, layout preservation and a clean 3-step flow: upload → choose languages → translate. Under the hood I’ve been tweaking how text blocks, tables and other structures are detected so the output needs as little manual fixing as possible. Right now PDF Translate focuses on translation, but the long-term goal is to become a small toolbox for all things PDF (translation, extraction, cleaning, maybe summarization and more) while staying lightweight and browser-based. If you try it, I’d love feedback on what PDF tasks you’d like to see next.

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