ReglyphTranslate Chinese PDFs & documents to English
scanned or digital — without breaking the layout
Scanned Chinese material — academic papers, business contracts, product manuals, household registration and other official documents — often arrives as image-only PDFs. Reglyph recognizes the Chinese characters, erases them, and places the English translation in the same spot so figures, tables, and seals stay put.
Working from paper? Scan and translate Chinese to English — how to get a usable scan, and what happens to it.
Dense CJK layout
Chinese packs characters tightly and mixes them with figures and tables. English translations are usually longer, so naive tools overflow the page. Reglyph fits the English back into the original blocks and keeps numbers and figures aligned.
Drag to compare — every table, figure, and number stays in place.
Common scanned Chinese documents we translate
These are the Chinese-language documents people most often translate to English — each keeps its original layout, seals, and tables.
How to translate a scanned Chinese document
Drop in a scanned Chinese PDF, a digital PDF, or a photo of the page. Image-only files are fine — no text layer needed.
OCR extracts the Chinese text, then it's translated to English while the original text is erased from the page.
Get a clean PDF where tables, figures, stamps, and numbers sit exactly where they were.
Chinese → English — frequently asked
Does it work on both Simplified and Traditional Chinese?
Yes. Both Simplified and Traditional Chinese scans are recognized and translated into English.
Can it translate a scanned Chinese research paper with tables?
Yes. Tables, figures, and multi-column layouts are preserved — only the text changes language.
What about scanned handwriting?
Clean printed scans work best. Handwritten Chinese is much harder for OCR and results will vary.
Can I use this as a Chinese to English PDF converter?
Yes — upload a Chinese PDF and download an English one. It goes beyond format conversion: the pages are OCR'd, translated, and re-typeset, so you get an English document with the original tables, seals, and figures still in place.
Is this a substitute for a certified translator from Chinese to English?
It replaces the translating, not the certification. The complete English document, seals in place, is ready in minutes; if your receiving office requires a certified translator's signature, they review this draft rather than starting from the scan.
Choose your plan
Simple, scan-friendly pricing. Pages are pages — no multiplier for scanned files.
$0.30 a page, from 10 pages — you pay for exactly 10 pages.
- $0.30 / page — buy exactly what you need
- Pages never expire
- Up to 100 MB per file
- $0.09 / page
- 100 pages every month
- Up to 100 MB per file
- Pages reset each month
- $0.06 / page
- 500 pages every month
- Unused pages roll over (up to 1,500)
- Up to 100 MB per file
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