Translate PDF

Upload a PDF and get an AI translation of its content into another language — no copy-pasting the text out first, no juggling a second translation tool.

How to use it

1. Upload the PDF you want translated.
2. Choose a target language from the dropdown.
3. Click Translate.
4. Copy or download the translated text.

What it reads

The translation is generated from the PDF's embedded text layer — the same text you could select and copy in a PDF viewer. A PDF exported from Word, LaTeX, or a browser's "Print to PDF" has this; a scanned or photographed document usually doesn't, since it's really just a picture of a page with no text underneath. If your file has no extractable text, run it through Scanned PDF Converter first (it OCRs the pages into a searchable PDF), then translate the result.

For very long documents, only the first ~60 pages (or roughly 20,000 characters of text, whichever comes first) are read — long enough for the vast majority of reports, articles, and contracts, without the translation call growing unbounded on a 500-page file.

Source language

There's no source-language picker — the AI detects it automatically from the extracted text. This works well for any single-language document; a PDF that mixes several languages on the same page may see the less common one only partially translated.

Tips

• Formatting (tables, columns, bold text) isn't preserved — the output is plain translated text. For a translation that needs to look like the original document, treat this as a fast first draft.
• Copy or download the result — like every AI-generated tool on this site, the translation isn't reproducible from a shared link (it's non-deterministic, so a link would just spend credits regenerating a different answer).

Is my file stored anywhere?

Your PDF's extracted text is sent to an AI provider to generate the translation, then discarded — it isn't logged, stored, or used to train anything. See the third-party data badge above the tool for details.

Does this work on password-protected PDFs?

No — remove the password first with Unlock PDF, then upload the unlocked file here.

Is this free?

Yes. Smallpdf's version of this tool requires a signed-in, paid account for every translation. This one is free to try, and each run costs credits like every other AI tool on this site — no separate PDF subscription required.