ReglyphReglyph vs Doclingo, Side by Side: Both Translate the Tables. Which Keeps the Background?
Reglyph is our product, so we can't claim to be neutral. Same files, same target languages, default settings, every result shown as it came out. Tested October 2026.
- Scanned PDF: both tools read every scan and translated the body text, tables and footers. The difference is the background. Doclingo lays a solid-color backing under its translation, which is invisible on a white page but shows as bands of color on a photo or old paper. Reglyph restores the background. On the page of colored panels on white, Doclingo came out slightly ahead.
- Digital PDF: Doclingo kept first-line indents and returned each one-page paper as one page. On the physics paper, though, an equation lost part of a term, the journal name was mistranslated, and several words ran together. Reglyph's page was cleaner.
- Doclingo's most visible layout issue is type size: within one paragraph, some lines come out a size larger or smaller than the rest.
Scorecard
| Page | Languages | Better result | What decided it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text over a photo (scan) | EN → ZH | Reglyph | Background: Doclingo laid grey bands over the photo, three empty rows mid-column |
| 1871 book page (scan) | FR → EN | Reglyph, slightly | Background: beige bands under each line; Doclingo kept the indents |
| Colored panels (scan) | EN → ES | Doclingo, slightly | Our title and tab label wrapped; Doclingo's type size jumps |
| Financial table (scan) | EN → JA | Tie | Both translated the whole table; Doclingo misplaced a few $ signs |
| Dense two-column paper (digital) | EN → FR | Reglyph | Doclingo dropped part of an equation and mistranslated the journal name |
| Paper with a parameter table (digital) | EN → KO | Reglyph, slightly | Doclingo left the figure labels in English; uneven type size |
| Score | Reglyph 5 · Doclingo 2 | A tie scores a point for each |
Unlike Reflo, Doclingo didn't skip any tables; it even translated the footnotes on the financial page. What separates the two tools is how the background is handled, and how steady the type size is.
How we tested
- The same six pages as our Reglyph vs Reflo test: four image-only scans (an annual report printed over a photo, an 1871 book, a financial table, a guide full of colored panels) and two digital research papers.
- We judged layout and completeness: backgrounds, text left untranslated, words cut off or overlapping, type size. We didn't score the wording.
- Every page Doclingo returned carries a one-line watermark at the foot, which we left in. Its plans page lists watermark removal on the paid tiers.
- Six pages is a small sample. Read this as a close look at a few hard pages, not a benchmark.
Scanned PDFs: both translate everything, the background decides it
Doclingo read the text on all four image-only scans and translated nearly all of it: body text, tables, captions and footers. Its approach to the background is to lay a solid-color backing under the translation. On a white or simple background that's barely noticeable. Where the text sits on a photo or old paper, and you want the translation to keep the look of the original, the difference shows.
Text over a photo (English → Chinese)
Reglyph wins this page. Both tools translated all of it and kept the three statistics as large numbers; the difference is the body text over the photo. Doclingo puts a grey band under every line, so the sea shows through a grid of rectangles. Halfway through the third paragraph in the left column there are three rows of grey backing with no text on them before the sentence carries on. The pie chart and the briefcase icon behind the statistics have a few patches too. Ours sets the Chinese directly on the restored photo. Our weak spot is the numbers: bold in the original, thinner in ours.
An 1871 book scan (French → English)
Reglyph is slightly ahead here, though Doclingo does one thing better: it kept every first-line indent, and we lost ours. The gap is the paper. Each line of Doclingo's English sits on a band of beige close to the color of the page, but the edges of the bands are visible, and the specks and stains of the old paper are gone beneath them. The type size wanders too: the line "free rein to the most absurd fantasies" is a size larger than the one above it. Ours is printed straight onto the original paper, with the engraving and the grain intact.
Colored panels on white (English → Spanish)
Doclingo is slightly ahead on this page. On a white page its solid backing is barely visible, all three titles stay on one line, the "Salud intestinal" tab fits, and the footer is in Spanish. On ours the first title wraps onto two lines, the tab label wraps too, and there's a trace of the erased English inside the blue tab. Doclingo's problem is type size: in the first bullet, the line "edad, sexo, altura" is clearly larger than the line above, and in the protein section two bullets are merged into one paragraph. Both have rough spots, but its page is closer to the original.
Financial table and bar chart (English → Japanese)
A tie. Both tools translated the full table, all three footnotes and the chart labels into Japanese, and every number is there. Doclingo has two small issues: in the first row and the total row, the $ that opens the next column ends up after the previous number, so it reads "3,054,791 $"; and some rows are set a size smaller than others. On ours there's a small smudge in the footnotes, and the bold in the header was lost.
Digital PDFs: Doclingo keeps the indents, an equation slips
Doclingo fitted both papers onto one page with nothing printed over the figures, and it kept first-line indents, which we don't. The problems are in an equation and a few details.
Dense two-column paper (English → French)
Reglyph wins this page. Doclingo fitted the French onto one page, left the figure clear and indented the paragraphs. But the mass equation in the left column is missing a piece: in the original, π is raised to −8/3 and followed by f to the −11/3; in Doclingo's version the "3 f" is gone, leaving "π^(−8/ −11/3) ḟ". The running head, Physical Review Letters, became "Lettres d'examen physique", roughly "physics exam letters". Several words in the body run together ("lamasse", "trousnoirs"), and one English "the" was left in. Our equation is complete and the journal name is left as it is.
Paper with a parameter table (English → Korean)
Reglyph has the edge here. Doclingo handled the parameter table well: each row is translated into Korean with the original key in brackets, as in 레이어 수(n_layers), so you can still search the code for it. We kept the keys as written. Both approaches work. We're ahead on two points: the labels under the three diagrams (Vanilla Attention and the others) are translated in ours and left in English in Doclingo's, and Doclingo's body text has a few lines that suddenly drop a size, with very tight line spacing. Our type size stays steady.
Which one should you use?
- Text printed over a photo, old paper or a gradient, and you want the translation to keep the look of the original: Reglyph.
- White pages and simple backgrounds: Doclingo does the job, and it translates tables and footers too.
- Papers with equations: whichever tool you use, check the equations afterwards. In this test one of Doclingo's lost part of a term.
- The surest test is your own file. Reglyph gives you 5 free pages a day; upload one here.
How Doclingo ranks among the eight tools we tested: the best PDF translation services, compared.
More side-by-side tests: Reglyph vs DeepL (the same six pages), Reglyph vs Reflo, Reglyph vs Google Translate.
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Translate 5 pages free, every dayFrequently asked
Can Doclingo translate a scanned PDF?
Yes. In our test it read all four image-only scans and translated the body text, tables and footers. Where text was printed over a photo or old paper, it laid a solid-color backing under the translation, so the original background behind the text no longer showed.
Does Doclingo keep the layout of a PDF?
Mostly. All six pages came back as single pages with columns, tables and figures in place, and first-line indents were kept. The main issue was type size jumping between lines within a paragraph; on one physics paper an equation also lost part of a term.
For scanned PDFs, is Reglyph or Doclingo better?
On scans with busy backgrounds, Reglyph: it restored the photo on the annual-report page where Doclingo laid grey bands, and it was slightly ahead on the 1871 book page. On the colored-panel guide Doclingo was slightly ahead, and the financial table was a tie.
Reglyph is your product. Is this comparison fair?
We can't be neutral, so we've tried to make the results checkable: same files and target languages for both, every result shown next to the original, and the things Doclingo did better (like first-line indents, and the colored-panel page) are written up too. All six source pages are public, so you can run them yourself.