Translate a PDF

Need to study from a document that is not in your language? Upload a PDF of up to 10 pages, or paste the text, and get a plain-text translation. The layout is not kept, so check the translation before you rely on it. No sign-up. Gistr helps you learn, research and teach any topic.

Read a document in the language you need

From a PDF to plain text

From a PDF to plain text

Upload a PDF or paste the text and pick a language. You get the translation as plain text, without the original layout.

Indian languages first

Indian languages first

Pick from 30 languages, with Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam and other Indian languages at the top.

Keep going in Gistr

Keep going in Gistr

Sign up free to open the original file in Gistr, ask questions about it and make notes in your language.

How to translate a PDF

1. Add your PDF or text

Upload a PDF with selectable text, or paste the text in the box above.

2. Pick a language

Choose the language you want. Leave the source on Auto-detect, or choose it yourself.

3. Copy or download

Press the arrow and wait. A long file can take a minute or two. Then copy the text or download a TXT.

What the tool does

PDFs up to 10 pages

Accepts PDFs of up to 10 MB and 10 pages. Pages with a lot of text can reach the length limit sooner.

30 languages

Translate into or from 30 languages, including 12 Indian languages. Or paste text instead of a PDF.

Plain text output

You get the words only. The layout, tables and images of the original are not kept.

Copy or download

Copy the translation in one click, or save it as a TXT file. No sign-up.

Same file, same translation

The same file with the same languages returns the cached result for up to 30 days.

Text-based PDFs only

Scanned PDFs are not supported. The PDF needs text you can select.

Do more than read the translation

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Add your PDFs, videos and web pages to Gistr to get notes, ask questions about them, and make flashcards and quizzes to test yourself.

Who uses the translator

Students

Read a foreign-language reference in your regional language.

Teachers

Translate a short handout for students who need it in another language.

Researchers

Read the abstract and key pages of a paper in another language.

Frequently asked questions

Upload the PDF at the top of this page, or paste its text, pick a language and press the arrow. Copy the translation or download it as a TXT file when it is ready.

No. The output is plain text. Columns, tables, images and page design are not kept, so the text may also read in a different order on a complex page.

Check it first. An AI model writes it, and it can make mistakes, most of all with technical terms, names and numbers. It is not a certified translation, so do not use it where an official one is required.

A PDF can be up to 10 MB and 10 pages, but 10 pages is a maximum, not a promise. The real limit is about 30,000 characters of English, and fewer in non-Latin scripts such as Hindi, Tamil or Chinese. Pasted text has the same limit. If a document is over the limit, you get an error and no partial translation. Split it and translate each part.

Not in one upload. Split the file into short parts, then upload each part.

Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam, Punjabi, Assamese, English, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

No. Leave it on Auto-detect and the tool works out the language from the text. You can choose it yourself if you know it.

Results are cached for up to 30 days, keyed by a hash of the file content and the languages you chose, so the same file with the same languages returns the cached result.

Yes, these tools are free to use. There is a fair-use limit so they stay available for everyone.

No sign-up is needed. You only need an account if you want to keep working on the file in Gistr.

Scanned PDFs are not supported. Upload a PDF with selectable text.

No file is kept beyond a 30-day cache of results. The cache is keyed by a hash of the file content.

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