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Why PDF translation wrecks columns, tables and ligatures — and a step-by-step way to translate a PDF that keeps the original layout intact.

A scanned PDF has no text layer, so no translator can read it. Here is the OCR-first workflow that actually produces a usable translated PDF.

Equations are the first thing to break when you translate a paper. Why extraction mangles math, how to protect it, and how to verify the result.

Chinese reflows shorter, CJK fonts must be embedded, punctuation is full-width. How to translate an English PDF to Chinese with the layout intact.

Translate any PDF while keeping its exact layout — columns, tables and formulas intact. Here is how PDFPal does it.