ReglyphScan and translate Chinese to English
without flattening the page into plain text
On a Chinese official document the red seal is the point — and it is usually stamped straight across the characters underneath it.
Reglyph lifts only the printed Chinese off the page, so the seal, the ruled boxes of a 户口本 page and the photo on a certificate all stay put. English runs wider than Chinese, so the translation is fitted into the space the characters vacated rather than allowed to push the table out of shape.
Scanning Chinese documents — frequently asked
Already have a digital Chinese PDF rather than a scan? Chinese → English document translation
Can I scan a Chinese certificate with my phone and get it in English?
Yes. Save the scan as a PDF — both iPhone and Android have a document scanner that does this — and upload it. There is no separate OCR step to run first; image-only PDFs are the normal input here.
Does the red official seal (公章) stay in place?
Yes, and this matters more here than in most languages: the seal is what makes the document official, and it is normally stamped over the text rather than beside it. It is part of the page image, so it stays exactly where it is — including the characters it overlaps, which stay legible underneath the English.
Simplified or Traditional — does it matter which the scan is in?
Both are recognized, including a document that mixes them. Vertically-set text, which still turns up on older certificates and in some Traditional material, is read in the correct column order and set back as horizontal English.
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- $0.50 / page
- 10 scanned pages, never expire
- Up to 100 MB per file
- $0.13 / page
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- Up to 100 MB per file
- Pages reset each month
- $0.06 / page
- 700 pages every month
- Unused pages roll over (up to 2,100)
- Big files up to 300 MB
Guides on translating scanned documents
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Read guideActes de naissance with margin annotations, mairie stamps, diplomas from three countries — the practical way to get English versions that authorities will accept.
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