Translate Croatian PDFs & documents to English scanned or digital — without breaking the layout
Many Croatian families in Australia, Canada, the U.S. and Germany have inherited a house or land back home and need to read the inheritance decision and the land-registry extract. Foreign buyers of holiday homes on the coast deal with the same documents. People studying or working abroad need their university diploma and birth certificate in English, and organizations working with Croatian towns and associations receive grant decisions and budgets built from tables. On pages that are mostly grids, such as grant tables and register extracts, the English is set back into the original cells with rows and columns unchanged.
č and ć are two letters, and so are đ and dž
The Croatian alphabet has 30 letters: č, ć, đ, š and ž carry marks, and dž, lj and nj count as single letters although they are written with two. One missing mark changes the meaning, as kuca means knocks and kuća means house. In headings and names set in capitals the marks are small and crowded, and easily lost on a scan. The letter đ was once written dj, so the same surname can appear in two spellings on older documents. Official letters usually carry two numbers in the header, KLASA and URBROJ: the classification number of the case and the registry number of the document within it, both of which should be kept exactly. Amounts are written 1.250,00 eura, with a point for thousands and a comma for decimals, the reverse of English.
Common scanned Croatian documents we translate
These are the Croatian-language documents people most often translate to English — each keeps its original layout, seals, and tables.
- Land-registry extracts (zemljišnoknjižni izvadak)
- Inheritance decisions (rješenje o nasljeđivanju)
- Birth and marriage certificates (rodni list, vjenčani list)
- Certificates of citizenship (domovnica)
- University diplomas and diploma supplements (diploma, dopunska isprava o studiju)
- Municipal decisions and grant proposals (odluka, prijedlog)
How to translate a scanned Croatian document
Upload your PDF
Drop in a scanned Croatian PDF (one from your phone's scanner app works) or a digital PDF. Image-only PDFs are fine — no text layer needed.
We read & translate
OCR extracts the Croatian text, then it's translated to English while the original text is erased from the page.
Download, layout intact
Get a clean PDF where tables, figures, stamps, and numbers sit exactly where they were.
Croatian → English — frequently asked
I inherited land in Croatia. Can the land-registry extract be translated to English?
Yes. Scan the zemljišnoknjižni izvadak to PDF and upload it; the English version follows the original's three parts A, B and C (posjedovnica, vlastovnica, teretovnica), with parcel numbers, areas and shares in their original positions. Part B shows who is registered as owner and in what shares, and part C shows whether there is a mortgage or other burden. What kind of translation a transfer or inheritance registration requires is decided by the office handling it, and it is usually a certified one.
Will ć, č and đ in names be misread?
On a clear print, č, ć, š and ž are generally read correctly, names in capitals included. Watch đ: older documents may write it dj, so one person can have two spellings on papers from different decades. When comparing with an ID, go through every name.
Will amounts be converted to English notation?
The figures themselves do not change, but their notation can. Amounts in running text are often converted to English style, so 1.250,00 eura becomes EUR 1,250.00, while figures in tables sometimes stay as printed. When both styles appear on one page the point and the comma mean opposite things, so copy numbers carefully.
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