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English→ German

Translate English PDFs & documents to German scanned or digital — without breaking the layout

Anyone relocating to Germany learns fast that the Ausländerbehörde, the bank, and the Anmeldung process prefer everything in German — from English employment contracts to marriage certificates. Engineering firms face the same problem in the other direction of scale: English technical documentation, test reports, and specifications that German partners and auditors expect in German. Reglyph translates the scan and re-typesets the German text into the original layout, and you get 5 free pages a day.

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EnglishPage 3 of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2025–2030 (USDA and HHS) as an image-only English PDF: a food photo banner, three green section headings (Eat the Right Amount for You, Prioritize Protein Foods at Every Meal, Consume Dairy), two-column bullet lists and a blue Gut Health callout box
GermanThe same page translated into German by Reglyph: headings such as “Essen Sie die für Sie richtige Menge”, the two-column bullet lists, the blue “Darmgesundheit” callout box, the food photos and the USDA/HHS logos stay in their original positions
Example: page 3 of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2025–2030, an image-only PDF with no text layer, translated from English into German by Reglyph. Photos, headings, the callout box and the logos stay where they were.
Layout-preserving

German compounds are long — and they widen tables

German is notorious for single words like "Haftpflichtversicherung" that replace an entire English phrase, and overall text expands around 10–35% depending on the document. That is brutal for narrow table columns and form labels sized for English. Reglyph erases the English from the page image and re-typesets the German within each original block, breaking and fitting long compounds so table cells, headers, and margins hold their shape instead of overflowing.

Common scanned English documents we translate

These are the English-language documents people most often translate to German — each keeps its original layout, seals, and tables.

  • English employment contracts for German work-visa files
  • Marriage and birth certificates for the Standesamt or Ausländerbehörde
  • Technical specifications and test reports for German engineering partners
  • Safety data sheets (SDS) for chemicals sold in Germany
  • Rental references and bank letters for apartment applications
  • Operating manuals for machinery exported to the German market

How to translate a scanned English document

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Upload your PDF

Drop in a scanned English PDF (one from your phone's scanner app works) or a digital PDF. Image-only PDFs are fine — no text layer needed.

02

We read & translate

OCR extracts the English text, then it's translated to German while the original text is erased from the page.

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Download, layout intact

Get a clean PDF where tables, figures, stamps, and numbers sit exactly where they were.

English → German — frequently asked

Will German authorities accept a machine translation of my English documents?

For official submissions, German authorities generally require a translation by a beeidigter Übersetzer (sworn translator). Reglyph is the step before that: it gives you a German draft with the exact layout of the original, which the sworn translator can review and certify instead of retyping everything from scratch.

Can it translate English technical manuals to German without wrecking the diagrams?

Yes. Diagrams, figures, and callouts are part of the page image and stay put — only the printed text is erased and replaced with German. Long German terms are re-typeset to fit their original blocks, so labels stay attached to the parts of the drawing they describe.

How much does it cost to translate a 40-page English contract to German?

You get 5 free pages a day with no credit card, and paid plans start at $3, so a 40-page contract is inexpensive to run. You can also export a bilingual side-by-side PDF with English and German on facing halves — useful when both parties to the contract need to check the wording.

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