ReglyphTranslate English PDFs & documents to German
scanned or digital — without breaking the layout
Anyone relocating to Germany learns fast that the Ausländerbehörde, the bank, and the Anmeldung process prefer everything in German — from English employment contracts to marriage certificates. Engineering firms face the same problem in the other direction of scale: English technical documentation, test reports, and specifications that German partners and auditors expect in German. Reglyph translates the scan and re-typesets the German text into the original layout, and the first 5 pages are free.
German compounds are long — and they widen tables
German is notorious for single words like "Haftpflichtversicherung" that replace an entire English phrase, and overall text expands around 10–35% depending on the document. That is brutal for narrow table columns and form labels sized for English. Reglyph erases the English from the page image and re-typesets the German within each original block, breaking and fitting long compounds so table cells, headers, and margins hold their shape instead of overflowing.
Drag to compare — every table, figure, and number stays in place.
Common scanned English documents we translate
These are the English-language documents people most often translate to German — each keeps its original layout, seals, and tables.
How to translate a scanned English document
Drop in a scanned English PDF, a digital PDF, or a photo of the page. Image-only files are fine — no text layer needed.
OCR extracts the English text, then it's translated to German while the original text is erased from the page.
Get a clean PDF where tables, figures, stamps, and numbers sit exactly where they were.
English → German — frequently asked
Will German authorities accept a machine translation of my English documents?
For official submissions, German authorities generally require a translation by a beeidigter Übersetzer (sworn translator). Reglyph is the step before that: it gives you a German draft with the exact layout of the original, which the sworn translator can review and certify instead of retyping everything from scratch.
Can it translate English technical manuals to German without wrecking the diagrams?
Yes. Diagrams, figures, and callouts are part of the page image and stay put — only the printed text is erased and replaced with German. Long German terms are re-typeset to fit their original blocks, so labels stay attached to the parts of the drawing they describe.
How much does it cost to translate a 40-page English contract to German?
Your first 5 pages are free with no credit card, and paid plans start at $5, so a 40-page contract is inexpensive to run. You can also export a bilingual side-by-side PDF with English and German on facing halves — useful when both parties to the contract need to check the wording.
Choose your plan
Simple, scan-friendly pricing. Pages are pages — no multiplier for scanned files.
- $0.50 / page
- 10 scanned pages, never expire
- Up to 100 MB per file
- $0.13 / page
- 120 pages every month
- 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
Translate scanned PDFs in other languages
Guides on translating scanned documents
Actes de naissance with margin annotations, mairie stamps, diplomas from three countries — the practical way to get English versions that authorities will accept.
Read guideGeburtsurkunde, Arbeitszeugnis, a stack of scanned contracts — here's the realistic way to get accurate English versions that still look like the originals.
Read guideThe rule itself is short. The mistakes people make around it — partial translations, missing seals, uncertified machine output — are what generate RFEs.
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