Can it really translate an entire book in one job?

Yes — long files are what the pipeline is built for. Upload the full PDF (scanned or digital) and every page comes back translated with the original layout and numbering.

How does this compare to hiring a book translation service?

Literary translation runs roughly $0.08–0.15 per word — thousands of dollars and months for a full book, and worth it for a polished published edition. Reglyph produces a complete, structured reading draft in minutes for a fraction of that; many authors use it as the base a human editor then refines.

Are footnotes and captions preserved?

Yes. Footnotes stay at the foot of their page, captions stay with their figures, and chapter headings keep their hierarchy — the translated book still reads like the book.

Can I translate a book I bought for my own reading?

Translating for your own private reading is generally uncontroversial. Publishing, sharing or selling a translation of a rights-protected book requires permission from the rights holder.

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Book-length translation has always meant one of two things: months with a literary translator, or feeding chapters through a web translator and losing the book in the process. There's a large middle ground both of those miss: authors drafting a foreign edition, families with a memoir or self-published history, researchers working through a foreign monograph, publishers evaluating a title before buying rights. Reglyph translates the full manuscript page by page — scanned print included — and keeps the book's structure: chapter openings, footnotes, captions and page numbering all survive.

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A word on rights

Translating a book you wrote, a family manuscript, or a public-domain work is straightforward. For a book someone else holds rights to, a translation for your own reading is one thing — publishing or distributing that translation requires the rights holder's permission. Reglyph gives you the translation; the rights question stays yours to clear before anything goes public.

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Who needs books & manuscripts translated

The situations people most often bring books & manuscripts to us for — each one keeps the original layout, seals and tables.

Authors preparing a foreign-language edition draft

Family memoirs and self-published histories

Public-domain and out-of-print works

Researchers reading foreign monographs

Publishers evaluating titles before licensing

How long are these documents?

A book is the definitional batch job: 100–400 pages, sometimes more. Reglyph processes the whole file in one run with page numbers intact, so the translation can be read against the original chapter by chapter. A common workflow is to translate one sample chapter first, check the result, then run the rest.