Scanned German documents — academic certificates, legal contracts, technical datasheets, and official Amt paperwork — frequently need an English version. Reglyph OCRs the German text, erases it, and rebuilds the page in English so tables, headers, and stamps stay aligned. If you live in Germany and can't read a letter from an authority — a tax assessment from the Finanzamt, a notice from the Jobcenter, a pension adjustment — upload the scan and you get an English version with the same layout in minutes, so you can see what the letter asks of you and by when.
Working from paper? Scan and translate German to English — how to get a usable scan, and what happens to it.


German forms very long compound words and uses umlauts (ä, ö, ü) and ß. These can break OCR and overflow tight layouts. Reglyph reads them correctly and refits the (usually shorter) English back into the original blocks.
These are the German-language documents people most often translate to English — each keeps its original layout, seals, and tables.
Drop in a scanned German PDF (one from your phone's scanner app works) or a digital PDF. Image-only PDFs are fine — no text layer needed.
OCR extracts the German text, then it's translated to English while the original text is erased from the page.
Get a clean PDF where tables, figures, stamps, and numbers sit exactly where they were.
Yes. Scan the letter to a PDF and upload it; the English version keeps the letter's layout, with the table of amounts and the reference number where they were. That's enough to understand what it says. For a formal reply or a submission, follow what the authority asks for.
Numbers, amounts and reference numbers stay as they are. Dates may be rewritten in English style — in our test 26.09.2026 became 09/26/2026 — so check every deadline against the original letter, especially the period for filing an objection (Widerspruch).
Yes. Contract tables and clause numbering are preserved while the German is translated to English.
Yes. ä, ö, ü, and ß are recognized correctly, which is essential for names and legal terms.
Yes. Reglyph translates page by page, so the output mirrors the original document's pages.
In effect, yes: you upload a German PDF and download an English one. The pages are OCR'd, translated, and re-typeset in place, so the converted file keeps the original layout instead of coming back as plain text.
For reading, filing and handling your own paperwork, yes — the translation is complete, layout-faithful and ready in minutes. For submissions that require certification you need a certified translator; our version helps you understand the document first and check the certified translation against it.
Simple, scan-friendly pricing. Pages are pages — no multiplier for scanned files.
Translate a few pages. No commitment.
$0.30 a page, from 10 pages — you pay for exactly 10 pages.
For individuals with scans to translate every month.
For high-volume users with scans to translate every week.
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