Translate the PDF. Keep the Page Layout.
Upload a text-based or scanned PDF and receive a translated PDF with its supported page layout preserved. Lingivio prices each page according to the processing it actually requires.
What Stays Intact
- Page size and supported layout
- Images and positioned page content
- Numbers, codes, URLs, and email addresses
- The original PDF output format
- A visible distinction between text-layer and OCR processing
What Survives When You Translate PDF
- Output is produced by removing the original text and drawing the translation back into the same box, so page geometry, images and vector art are the originals.
- A dual mode puts the original page beside the translated one, which is what you want when you are checking a document rather than replacing it.
- Born-digital pages are read from the text layer; scanned pages are routed to OCR automatically, page by page, inside the same file. Text-layer pages are read exactly. OCR pages are best-effort — a line the recogniser cannot read stays in the source language — and they are billed in full either way.
- A block we cannot translate confidently keeps its original pixels: visibly untranslated, never filled with a guess.
How It Works
- 1.
Upload Your PDF
Lingivio checks each page to determine whether it contains a usable text layer or requires OCR.
- 2.
Choose the Target Language
Select from the languages available for PDF output and review the exact credit cost.
- 3.
Download the Translated PDF
Receive a translated PDF with its supported page layout preserved.
Plans and Credit Cost
Text-based PDF translation is included with Starter, Professional, Business, and Enterprise plans and uses 1 credit per page. Scanned PDF translation requires Business or Enterprise and uses 2 credits per OCR page. A mixed PDF is charged page by page according to the processing each page needs.
Compare PlansSee It on a Real Document
The before and after below is a real PDF file this engine translated (Spanish to English). The examples page has the files themselves.
What This Does Not Do
- Scanned pages and images are best-effort: on dense or degraded scans a share of lines is never extracted at all. Those lines stay in the source language on the page rather than being guessed at, and the page is charged in full whatever OCR reads off it. We do not promise a scan comes back 100% translated. Born-digital pages carry no such caveat.
- Handwriting-style Nastaliq — Urdu in particular — is not read reliably by any OCR we have tested. Those files fail with an explicit error instead of returning something that merely looks translated.
- Anything the verify stage cannot confirm falls back to the source text, visible and untranslated. A file that looks finished but is not is the one outcome we will not ship.
Questions
- How do I know whether my PDF requires OCR?
- Lingivio checks the file after upload and calculates the cost from what is actually present on each page.
- Can Lingivio translate a partly scanned PDF?
- Yes. Text-layer pages use 1 credit and pages requiring OCR use 2 credits.
- Which languages are available for PDF output?
- PDF output currently supports 20 target languages. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Hindi are not currently available for PDF output.
- Does Lingivio convert my PDF into Word?
- No. Lingivio translates the PDF and returns a PDF.
- What happens to my file afterwards?
- Uploaded and generated files are automatically deleted within 24 hours, and are never used to train a model.
Translate the PDF. Keep the Page Layout.
Upload your file to see the supported languages and exact credit cost before translation begins.
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