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How to translate a PDF on your Android phone

By Toolverse Labs, makers of PDF Tools · · 2 min read

Quick answer

To translate a PDF on Android, open PDF Tools, go to Tools → Translate, choose the PDF and the language to translate into, and tap Translate. Read the result page by page, then copy it or save it as .txt.

PDF Tools Translate: choosing the languages, and a rental agreement translated page by page
Screens from PDF Tools on Android, with demo documents.

A letter from an office in another state, a product manual, a lease in a language you read slowly: PDF Tools translates the text of a PDF right on your phone.

Steps to translate a PDF

  1. Go to Tools → Translate and choose the PDF.
  2. The source language is found in the text. Choose the language to translate into.
  3. Tap Translate. The first time, the language pack downloads once.
  4. Read the translation page by page; turn on Show the original to compare.
  5. Tap Copy text or Save as .txt.

Translate English to Hindi and back

Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil and dozens of other languages are available, as well as English. Each language downloads once; after that translation works offline and the text never leaves your phone.

Good to know

  • The translation is shown as text; the layout of the PDF is not kept.
  • Machine translation can be wrong. Check names, numbers and anything legal with a person you trust.
  • For a scanned PDF, run Make searchable first.

Try it on your phone. PDF Tools is free, works offline and needs no account.

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Frequently asked questions

Can I translate a PDF offline?

Yes. After the language downloads once, translation works without internet.

Can I translate a PDF from English to Hindi?

Yes. Choose Hindi as the language to translate into.

Does translation keep the layout?

No. You get the translated text page by page.

Is my document sent to a server?

No. Translation runs on your phone.

Everything PDF Tools can do

More than 40 tools in one free app, on phones and tablets, in 10 languages. Your files are processed on your phone and never uploaded to our servers.

  • Edit: edit PDF text, find and replace, images, shapes, drawing, highlight, links, bookmarks, redact.
  • Fill and sign: fill forms, saved details, make a form, sign, certificate signature, stamps and dates, flatten.
  • Pages: organise, merge, split, rotate, crop, resize, pages per sheet, page numbers, watermark.
  • Convert and scan: scan to PDF, images to PDF, ID card to PDF, OCR, QR scanner and maker, business card to contact, PDF to Word, Word to PDF, PDF to JPG, PDF to text, web page to PDF.
  • Protect and shrink: compress PDF, compress photo, black and white, add or remove password, clean hidden data.
  • Read, compare and find: reader with night mode, read aloud, translate, compare PDFs, find dates and amounts, print.
  • Files and privacy: folders, favourites, recycle bin, app lock, search inside files, batch mode.

See every feature in detail or get PDF Tools on Google Play.

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