Most translators wreck the formatting of a scanned document. Reglyph doesn’t. Upload a scanned or photographed PDF and Reglyph reads it with OCR, cleanly erases the original text, translates it, and rebuilds the page so the layout is preserved: multi-column text, tables, figures, official seals and signature lines all stay in place. Built for certificates, transcripts, contracts, manuals and academic papers across 19 languages. Try 5 pages free every day, no credit card required.
What is Reglyph?
The essentials
Reglyph is a web app that translates scanned and image-only PDFs without breaking their layout. Where ordinary translators return a wall of reflowed text, Reglyph rebuilds the page so the result looks like the original document, just in the target language.
Key features
OCR that reads scanned, photographed and image-only PDFs. Inpainting that cleanly erases the source text from the page image. Machine translation across 19 languages, both as source and target. Automatic re-typesetting that places the translation back in the original positions, so multi-column text, tables, figures, seals, signature lines and numbers stay in place. Correct shaping for CJK, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and Thai scripts, including vertical Japanese. Side-by-side bilingual PDF export for checking the translation against the original.
Use cases
Immigrants and students translating birth or marriage certificates, transcripts and diplomas for applications. Businesses translating contracts, invoices and reports. Researchers reading foreign-language papers. Engineers working through technical manuals and datasheets. Anyone who receives documents as scans or phone photos rather than digital text.
Advantages
Works on scans and photos, not just digital PDFs
Pricing
Freemium. Every account gets 5 free pages per day with no credit card. Paid plans start at $5 (Starter, one-time), with a $15 monthly plan and a $39 Pro plan for heavier volumes.
Conclusion
If your documents arrive as scans or photos and the layout matters, Reglyph is the tool built for exactly that case. For clean digital PDFs, general-purpose translators may be enough; for certificates, transcripts, contracts and manuals that must still look like the original, Reglyph is the better fit, and the free daily pages make it easy to try.