Foreigners who work, buy property or set up a company in the Czech Republic receive a steady stream of Czech paperwork: decisions from authorities (rozhodnutí), land and company register extracts, tax and social-insurance notices. Businesses working with Czech suppliers and partners need to read their registration documents and contract annexes. Czech families in the U.S. and Canada sorting through family papers often find a stack of old Czech certificates. The English goes back into the original paragraphs, with letterheads, reference numbers and handwritten notes left in place, so finding a sentence in the original is quick.
Czech tells letters apart with the háček and the kroužek: ř, ě, č, š, ž, and ů. Drop one mark and the word changes: rada means advice, řada means a row or series. Names and places are no different, and Jiří must not become Jiri. On a poor scan the small ˇ is the first thing to disappear as noise. Legal citations have their own form: § 27 odst. 1 písm. b) is usually rendered Section 27(1)(b) in English, and zákon č. 500/2004 Sb. becomes Act No. 500/2004 Coll. Once a decision takes effect, a clause stamp (doložka právní moci) is often added, reading nabylo právní moci dne with a handwritten date. The text of such a stamp may stay in Czech in the English version, so take the effective date from the original.
These are the Czech-language documents people most often translate to English — each keeps its original layout, seals, and tables.
Drop in a scanned Czech PDF (one from your phone's scanner app works) or a digital PDF. Image-only PDFs are fine — no text layer needed.
OCR extracts the Czech text, then it's translated to English while the original text is erased from the page.
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Yes. Scan the decision to PDF and upload it; the English version keeps the letterhead, reference number (č. j.), date and paragraph order, and translates both the decision itself and the reasoning. The poučení at the end usually states whether you can appeal, to whom and by when, so read that section against the original. For a formal reply, follow the instructions in the original, and ask a local adviser if you are unsure.
Yes. In Czech one mark can turn a word into another, as with rada and řada. Where a scan is blurry or the type is small, ˇ and ˚ are the easiest marks to lose, and the translation then renders the wrong word in a perfectly fluent sentence, which makes the error hard to spot. Check the subject of the decision, place names and personal names against the original.
Yes. Citations are converted to English conventions, and Sb. after a law number is usually rendered Coll. Parcel numbers (parc. č.), building numbers (č. p.) and reference numbers stay as they are. Dates may be rewritten in another format, so check deadlines against the original.
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