ReglyphTranslate English PDFs & documents to Chinese
scanned or digital — without breaking the layout
Anyone working with Chinese manufacturers eventually needs English documents on the other side of the table in Chinese — engineering drawings' spec sheets, quality requirements, purchase agreements — and joint ventures generate contracts and board papers that both sides must read. Families have their own stack: English medical records and school documents for use in China. Reglyph OCRs the English, erases it from the page image, and typesets the Chinese back in place. The first 5 pages are free.
Chinese usually contracts — a page can suddenly look empty
Unlike most target languages, Chinese typically shrinks the text: a full English sentence often compresses to a short run of characters, so a naive translation leaves paragraphs rattling around in oversized boxes and tables full of white space. Chinese also needs proper CJK fonts — the wrong font renders characters as boxes. Reglyph re-typesets each block with appropriate CJK typography and sizing inside the original layout, so a contracted translation still fills its region naturally and the page reads as designed rather than sparse.
Drag to compare — every table, figure, and number stays in place.
Common scanned English documents we translate
These are the English-language documents people most often translate to Chinese — each keeps its original layout, seals, and tables.
How to translate a scanned English document
Drop in a scanned English PDF, a digital PDF, or a photo of the page. Image-only files are fine — no text layer needed.
OCR extracts the English text, then it's translated to Chinese while the original text is erased from the page.
Get a clean PDF where tables, figures, stamps, and numbers sit exactly where they were.
English → Chinese — frequently asked
Can I send my Chinese supplier a translated spec sheet that still looks like my spec sheet?
Yes — Reglyph erases the English from the scanned page and typesets the Chinese translation into the same layout, so tolerance tables, drawing references, and part numbers stay in their original positions. Numbers and codes are preserved as-is, which matters when a misplaced figure means a wrong part.
Simplified or Traditional Chinese?
Both — you pick Simplified or Traditional Chinese as the target when you upload. It is machine translation, so contracts with legal weight should get a bilingual reviewer's pass — the side-by-side export with English and Chinese on facing halves is built for exactly that.
Why do machine-translated Chinese PDFs often look half-empty, and does Reglyph fix that?
Chinese text is much more compact than English, so tools that simply swap text leave gaping white space and awkward tiny lines. Reglyph re-typesets each block with proper CJK fonts and sizing to fit its original region, so the translated page keeps the visual density and structure of the source document.
Choose your plan
Simple, scan-friendly pricing. Pages are pages — no multiplier for scanned files.
- $0.50 / page
- 10 scanned pages, never expire
- Up to 100 MB per file
- $0.13 / page
- 120 pages every month
- Up to 100 MB per file
- Pages reset each month
- $0.06 / page
- 700 pages every month
- Unused pages roll over (up to 2,100)
- Big files up to 300 MB
Translate scanned PDFs in other languages
Guides on translating scanned documents
Actes de naissance with margin annotations, mairie stamps, diplomas from three countries — the practical way to get English versions that authorities will accept.
Read guideGeburtsurkunde, Arbeitszeugnis, a stack of scanned contracts — here's the realistic way to get accurate English versions that still look like the originals.
Read guideThe rule itself is short. The mistakes people make around it — partial translations, missing seals, uncertified machine output — are what generate RFEs.
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