Issue

One day I need to translate big enough PDF file into English. The task is even harder because original document had rich formatting.

Investigation

I thought to do translation manually, something like:

  • load original document into Google docs
  • convert PDF to Google docs format and open it for editing (this is possible)
  • translate sentences one by one and try to preserve formatting
  • apply some formatting (but obviously it is pretty hard to achieve exactly same format as in original document)
  • then convert Gdocs document back to PDF

It is doable but I started thinking about magic online service to translate whole PDF.

Solution

Quick search provided several links to online PDF translation services.

I don’t remember which one I used to translate my documents but result was so good that I didn’t change any word in the result PDF.