Recently I got the PDF version of the user manual of my car. Since it was a Japanese domestic vehicle, the manual was only available in Japanese. I wanted to translate this to English but couldn't find a proper set of instructions to do it online. First I tried Google translate, which works pretty well for translating stuff across many languages, but it only gives you a plain-text translated output without any PDF formatting/images/pages etc.
I found a simple set of steps to translate PDF documents while preserving formatting, after trying various FREE options available online.
I found a simple set of steps to translate PDF documents while preserving formatting, after trying various FREE options available online.
- If the PDF is password-protected, use http://smallpdf.com/unlock-pdf to remove the password. If not, you can skip this step.
- Convert your PDF to Html using https://cloudconvert.com/pdf-to-html
- Download the generated Html and open it using Google Chrome.
- Right click in Google Chrome, and click "Translate to English". This will translate everything to English using Google Translate service while preserving formatting and images.
- Right click and "Save As" to save the translated Html to a folder (You can also save/print as PDF to get back in PDF format).
6 comments:
This seams great.
when I wanted to translate something, I tried converting the pdf to doc, then use an online translation tool.
But this is not practical for a long document.
And also formatting is messy.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!!
This was useful for me once. And was useful again today.
Thanks very much bro....
Thanks a lot dude! saved my day!
Thanks, very usefuful :)
But on the last step it's better to print as pdf to have a pdf file again
Thank you so much. Seriously you are a god amongst men, this is so smart. I had a large file with latex that was in Italian and most pdf translators would mess up the latex. This method keeps it together a lot better.
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