By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: July 2026
Drop in a PDF and pick a language — you get the same PDF back, translated: pages, images and layout stay where they were.
Free up to 25 pages, no account, no watermark.
Your file is deleted the moment it's done. The big PDF sites keep your bank statements and IDs on their servers. Here the original goes right after processing, the result after 45 minutes.
Most free routes to a translated PDF hand you a wall of plain text: the layout, tables and images are gone, and the tools that do keep the layout put exactly that feature behind a subscription. This one rebuilds the translation inside your document — every text block is replaced in place, images and page structure stay untouched — and it's free for documents up to 25 pages (a €5 pass does 100, and works on our other tools too).
Seven languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian — in any direction between them.
The translating happens on our own hardware, with a language model we run ourselves. Your PDF is not forwarded to a cloud translation service, there is no account, and the original is deleted as soon as the translation is finished; the result is wiped 45 minutes after it is ready.
Scanned pages need the text recognised before translation works well — our OCR PDF tool takes care of that first. Prefer to translate inside a word processor instead? PDF to Word converts the file so you can edit it directly. Just need the gist in English instead of a full translation? Summarize PDF reads the document and writes a short English summary instead of translating the whole thing.
Yes. PDF translation here puts the translated text back into the same text blocks, so pages, images and structure stay put. Fonts are unified and long translations shrink a little to fit; it's a faithful working copy, not a typographic clone.
Up to 25 pages per document, free, with no account, no watermark and no daily cap. A €5 ShinobiTools pass raises that to 100 pages for 30 days and works on our other tools too. The ads on the page keep the PDF translator free; there is no paywall on the translating itself.
English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, in any direction between them: German into English, English to French, Portuguese to Dutch and so on. Arabic, Chinese and other languages aren't supported yet. For those, pasting the extracted text into a general translator is the honest workaround, though it won't keep the PDF's layout.
Drop the file in, pick English as the target language and download the same document translated. That is how to translate a PDF from any of the seven languages: to translate Spanish to English PDF document files, a German contract or a French brochure, the steps are the same, and you can translate PDF to English or translate PDF to Spanish with the layout intact. Whether you need to translate PDF document from Spanish to English or the other way round, you can translate PDF Spanish to English in one pass, and a PDF translate English to Spanish takes about as long.
Google Translate can translate PDFs but strips most of the formatting, and the file goes to Google. Here the layout stays and the translation runs on our own hardware. So if you were about to try Google Translate PDF to Spanish and paste the text back into the document by hand, this page saves you that round trip.
No. The translation runs with our own language model on computers we operate ourselves; no outside translation or cloud service receives your document. The original is deleted as soon as the translation is finished, and the translated PDF 45 minutes after it is ready.
Not directly, because a scan has no text layer. Turn its pages into images with PDF to JPG and run those through the scan tool on our homepage first (that builds a searchable PDF with OCR), then translate the result here.
Yes. Images and page structure stay put and only the text blocks are replaced, so a PDF file with tables comes back as the same PDF file, translated. It is a PDF document translator, not a text exporter: the translation for PDF documents goes back into the document itself.
Text is translated page by page on our own hardware: a one-pager is usually under a minute, ten pages can take a few minutes. Documents are translated one at a time, so at busy moments yours may wait briefly before it starts. The page shows live progress.
Yes. You translate PDF online in any browser, with nothing to install; every PDF translate job runs on our own hardware, not a cloud service. It is a free PDF translator that works the same on a phone or a laptop.
Not directly, but you can translate the PDF here and then convert PDF files like the translated result with PDF to Word to get an editable document.
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