Romanians working in Italy, Spain, the UK and Germany are regularly asked for English versions of their birth certificate, criminal record certificate (cazier judiciar) and school documents when they change jobs or enroll their children in school. Anyone who owns or has inherited property in Romania needs to read land-registry extracts and notarial papers. Many others are tracing family history through archive scans of old school yearbooks, parish registers and local newspapers, with typefaces and spellings from a century ago. Each translated page corresponds to its original, with the old table rules and page numbers untouched, so any line can be traced back to the source.
The standard Romanian ș and ț have a comma below. Many older prints, and documents typed with older fonts, use the cedilla forms ş and ţ instead; they look almost identical but are different characters to a computer. Documents from before 1993 often write î inside a word where today's spelling has â, as in cînd and sînt, now când and sunt, and prints from a century ago still show spellings like Noembrie and dela. Since names have to match ID documents, these marks matter: the English version may normalize ş and ţ to today's comma forms, and occasionally drops a mark altogether. Amounts use a point for thousands and a comma for decimals (1.250,50 lei), and dates are written day.month.year.
These are the Romanian-language documents people most often translate to English — each keeps its original layout, seals, and tables.
Drop in a scanned Romanian 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 Romanian text, then it's translated to English while the original text is erased from the page.
Get a clean PDF where tables, figures, stamps, and numbers sit exactly where they were.
On a clear print these letters are recognized and the meaning comes through. Names are where to be careful: the English version may change ş and ţ to today's ș and ț, or in places drop the mark entirely, so that Ştefan becomes Stefan. When a name has to match an ID, check each one against the original.
Printed material works, including yearbooks, almanacs and local newspapers, with page numbers and table rules kept in place. For much of the nineteenth century, births, marriages and deaths were recorded by parish priests, and those parish registers are now mostly held by the county branches of the National Archives, many of them handwritten. Handwriting is not read reliably, so go through those parts yourself or with someone who reads Romanian. Headers in old tables are small and crowded and column names can come out imprecise, so check them column by column before relying on them.
In most cases yes, depending on what the receiving office asks for. Reglyph gives you an English version laid out like the original, so you know what the certificate says first. Once you have the certified translation, you can use ours to check names, dates and numbers item by item.
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