A large share of Estonian official documents are digital from the start and digitally signed, and those are often the ones that need an English version. Estonians working in Finland or the UK need their school certificates and birth certificate in English, foreign founders of Estonian companies need to read the business register card (registrikaart), and heirs to a house or forest need to understand the notary's succession certificate and the land register extract. Older paper documents and archive records usually exist only as scans. Either way, the English goes back into the original positions, with numbers, dates and signature lines unchanged.
Estonian vowels include õ, ä, ö and ü. The letters õ and ö look alike but sound different, and writing one for the other gives a different word or no word at all; on a blurry scan the tilde and the two dots are easily confused. The letters f, š, z and ž appear only in loanwords and foreign names. Estonian also builds long compounds such as rahvastikuregister (population register), which English splits into several words, so text in tight table cells may be set smaller. Dates are written 15.03.2024. ID documents and register records carry the isikukood, an 11-digit personal identification code whose first digit encodes sex and century of birth and whose next six digits are the date of birth. It is sensitive personal data, so keep it in mind before sending the English version to anyone.
These are the Estonian-language documents people most often translate to English — each keeps its original layout, seals, and tables.
Drop in a scanned Estonian 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 Estonian text, then it's translated to English while the original text is erased from the page.
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Not directly, because Reglyph accepts PDFs. Files ending in .asice or .bdoc are DigiDoc signature containers holding the original signed files. Open the container in the official DigiDoc4 application, save the PDF inside it, and upload that. The signature lives in the container, not in the saved PDF, so keep the original container for when you need to prove the document is genuine.
Yes. A succession certificate (pärimistunnistus) states who the heirs are and what share each inherits, and the English version keeps its layout, with names, shares and the notarial reference in their original positions. The certificate does not update the land register by itself, and it often notes that the heirs still have to apply to change the register entry. With the English version in hand you can check the land register extract (kinnistusraamatu väljavõte) for property still registered to the deceased. For a translation to submit to an office, follow that office's requirements.
On a clear print, rarely. In small type or on a blurry scan, the tilde of õ and the dots of ö are the easiest to confuse, as are ä and a. Check these letters in names and place names against the ID document.
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