Translate Marathi PDFs & documents to English scanned or digital — without breaking the layout
Marathi is the official language of Maharashtra, and the state's land records are kept in it. When family members living abroad inherit land back home, the first step is reading the 7/12 extract (सातबारा उतारा). Its upper part is village form 7, which records who owns the land, who occupies it, and the rights and liabilities attached to it. Below it comes form 12, the crop register, showing what was grown and how much area each crop covers. To see every plot a person holds in a village, you need the 8-A account extract. Non-agricultural land within city survey limits is recorded not on a 7/12 but on a property card (मालमत्ता पत्रक). For registered deeds such as sales, gifts and mortgages, the sub-registrar's office keeps an Index-II. Students moving on to further study or changing schools need a school leaving certificate. The English goes back into the original cells, with survey numbers, account numbers and stamps left in place.
The same letters as Hindi, but ळ is far more common
Marathi and Hindi are both written in Devanagari, but Marathi uses the Balbodh style, in which the retroflex lateral ळ is common; most Hindi dialects do not have that sound. It appears in शाळा (school), and so in the title of a school leaving certificate. In certain consonant clusters Marathi also writes र in an eyelash form (र्). The letters are the same but the languages are not, so choose Marathi, not Hindi, when you upload. Areas on a 7/12 are split into three columns, hectares, ares (आर) and square meters, so 1-20-00 means 1 hectare 20 ares. Locally people often speak in guntha: 1 guntha is about 101.17 square meters, slightly more than the 100 square meters of an are, so mixing the two causes a small error that grows with the size of the land.
Common scanned Marathi documents we translate
These are the Marathi-language documents people most often translate to English — each keeps its original layout, seals, and tables.
- 7/12 extracts (सातबारा उतारा)
- 8-A account extracts (गाव नमुना ८-अ)
- Mutation records (फेरफार)
- City property cards (मालमत्ता पत्रक)
- Index-II registration summaries (सूची क्रमांक २)
- School leaving certificates (शाळा सोडल्याचा दाखला)
How to translate a scanned Marathi document
Upload your PDF
Drop in a scanned Marathi 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 Marathi 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.
Marathi → English — frequently asked
Can a 7/12 extract be translated to English?
Yes. The English version keeps the original's upper and lower parts, with the survey or gat number, holders' names, area and mutation entry numbers in their original cells, so a buyer's lawyer or an heir living abroad can go through it column by column against the original. Once holders' names are written in Latin letters, the spelling may not match the passport, so check each one. For a transfer registration or a court filing, you will usually need a separate certified translation.
Can I upload a digitally signed 7/12 that I downloaded online?
Yes, it is already a PDF. The Maharashtra government has declared digitally signed 7/12, 8-A and mutation records fully legally valid. The English version is a separate, newly generated file that does not carry the original's digital signature, so keep the original: that is what proves the record is genuine.
Can I rely on the numbers in the translation?
In the documents we tested, figures in running text came out as Arabic numerals 0–9, but a figure standing alone in a table cell sometimes stayed in Devanagari, such as ४५. Check areas, survey numbers and amounts against the original one by one. If an old record has handwritten additions, handwriting is not read reliably, so check those fields yourself or ask someone who reads Marathi.
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