PDF scientific paper translation and bilingual comparison.
- 📊 Preserve formulas, charts, table of contents, and annotations (preview).
- 🌐 Support multiple languages, and diverse translation services.
- 🤖 Provides commandline tool, interactive user interface, and Docker
Feel free to provide feedback in GitHub Issues or Telegram Group.
For details on how to contribute, please consult the Contribution Guide.
Updates
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Online Service 🌟
You can try our application out using either of the following demos:
- Public free service online without installation (recommended).
- Immersive Translate - BabelDOC 1000 free pages per month. (recommended)
- Demo hosted on HuggingFace
- Demo hosted on ModelScope without installation.
Note that the computing resources of the demo are limited, so please avoid abusing them.
Installation and Usage
Methods
For different use cases, we provide distinct methods to use our program:
1. UV install
- Python installed (3.10 <= version <= 3.12)
- Install our package:
pip install uv
uv tool install --python 3.12 pdf2zh
- Execute translation, files generated in current working directory:
pdf2zh document.pdf
2. Windows exe
- Download pdf2zh-version-win64.zip from release page
- Unzip and double-click
pdf2zh.exe
to run.
3. Graphic user interface
1. Python installed (3.10 <= version <= 3.12) 2. Install our package:pip install pdf2zh
- Start using in browser:
pdf2zh -i
- If your browswer has not been started automatically, goto
http://localhost:7860/

See documentation for GUI for more details.
4. Docker
- Pull and run:
docker pull byaidu/pdf2zh
docker run -d -p 7860:7860 byaidu/pdf2zh
- Open in browser:
http://localhost:7860/
For docker deployment on cloud service:
5. Zotero Plugin
See Zotero PDF2zh for more details.
6. Commandline
- Python installed (3.10 <= version <= 3.12)
- Install our package:
pip install pdf2zh
- Execute translation, files generated in current working directory:
pdf2zh document.pdf
> docker pull ghcr.io/byaidu/pdfmathtranslate
> docker run -d -p 7860:7860 ghcr.io/byaidu/pdfmathtranslate
> ```
##### Unable to install?
The present program needs an AI model(`wybxc/DocLayout-YOLO-DocStructBench-onnx`) before working and some users are not able to download due to network issues. If you have a problem with downloading this model, we provide a workaround using the following environment variable:
```shell
set HF_ENDPOINT=https://hf-mirror.com
For PowerShell user:
$env:HF_ENDPOINT = https://hf-mirror.com
If the solution does not work to you / you encountered other issues, please refer to frequently asked questions.
Advanced Options
Execute the translation command in the command line to generate the translated document example-mono.pdf
and the bilingual document example-dual.pdf
in the current working directory. Use Google as the default translation service. More support translation services can find HERE.

In the following table, we list all advanced options for reference:
Option | Function | Example |
---|---|---|
files | Local files | pdf2zh ~/local.pdf |
links | Online files | pdf2zh <a href="http://arxiv.org/paper.pdf " target="_blank" rel="nofollow">arxiv.org/paper.pdf` |
-i | Enter GUI | pdf2zh -i |
-p | Partial document translation | pdf2zh example.pdf -p 1 |
-li | Source language | pdf2zh example.pdf -li en |
-lo | Target language | pdf2zh example.pdf -lo zh |
-s | Translation service | pdf2zh example.pdf -s deepl |
-t | Multi-threads | pdf2zh example.pdf -t 1 |
-o | Output dir | pdf2zh example.pdf -o output |
-f , -c | Exceptions | pdf2zh example.pdf -f "(MS.*)" |
-cp | Compatibility Mode | pdf2zh example.pdf --compatible |
--skip-subset-fonts | Skip font subset | pdf2zh example.pdf --skip-subset-fonts |
--ignore-cache | Ignore translate cache | pdf2zh example.pdf --ignore-cache |
--share | Public link | pdf2zh -i --share |
--authorized | Authorization | pdf2zh -i --authorized users.txt [auth.html] |
--prompt | Custom Prompt | pdf2zh --prompt [prompt.txt] |
--onnx | Use Custom DocLayout-YOLO ONNX model | pdf2zh --onnx [onnx/model/path] |
--serverport | Use Custom WebUI port | pdf2zh --serverport 7860 |
--dir | batch translate | pdf2zh --dir /path/to/translate/ |
--config | configuration file | pdf2zh --config /path/to/config/config.json |
--serverport | custom gradio server port | pdf2zh --serverport 7860 |
--babeldoc | Use Experimental backend BabelDOC to translate | pdf2zh --babeldoc -s openai example.pdf |
--mcp | Enable MCP STDIO mode | pdf2zh --mcp |
--sse | Enable MCP SSE mode | pdf2zh --mcp --sse |
For detailed explanations, please refer to our document about Advanced Usage for a full list of each option.
Secondary Development (APIs)
For downstream applications, please refer to our document about API Details for futher information about:
- Python API, how to use the program in other Python programs
- HTTP API, how to communicate with a server with the program installed