pdf2zh-next 2.6.4

PDFMathTranslate

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

[!WARNING]

This project is provided "as is" under the AGPL v3 license, and no guarantees are provided for the quality and performance of the program. The entire risk of the program's quality and performance is borne by you. If the program is found to be defective, you will be responsible for all necessary service, repair, or correction costs.

Due to the maintainers' limited energy, we do not provide any form of usage assistance or problem-solving. Related issues will be closed directly! (Pull requests to improve project documentation are welcome; bugs or friendly issues that follow the issue template are not affected by this)

For details on how to contribute, please consult the Contribution Guide.

Updates

• [Jun. 4, 2025] The project is renamed and move to PDFMathTranslate/PDFMathTranslate-next (by @awwaawwa)
• [Mar. 3, 2025] Experimental support for the new backend BabelDOC WebUI added as an experimental option (by @awwaawwa)
• [Feb. 22 2025] Better release CI and well-packaged windows-amd64 exe (by @awwaawwa)
• [Dec. 24 2024] The translator now supports local models on Xinference (by @imClumsyPanda)
• [Dec. 19 2024] Non-PDF/A documents are now supported using -cp (by @reycn)
• [Dec. 13 2024] Additional support for backend by (by @YadominJinta)
• [Dec. 10 2024] The translator now supports OpenAI models on Azure (by @yidasanqian)

Preview

Online Service 🌟

[!NOTE]

pdf2zh 2.0 does not currently provide an online demo

You can try our application out using either of the following demos:

• v1.x Public free service online without installation (recommended).
• Immersive Translate - BabelDOC 1000 free pages per month. (recommended)

Note that the computing resources of the demo are limited, so please avoid abusing them.

Installation and Usage

Installation

1. Windows EXE Recommand for Windows
2. Docker Recommand for Linux
3. uv (a Python package manager) Recommand for macOS

Usage

1. Using WebUI
2. Using Zotero Plugin (Third party program)
3. Using Commandline

For different use cases, we provide distinct methods to use our program. Check out this page for more information.

Advanced Options

For detailed explanations, please refer to our document about Advanced Usage for a full list of each option.

Secondary Development (APIs)

[!NOTE]

Currently, no relevant documentation is provided. It will be supplemented later. Please wait patiently.

Language Code

If you don't know what code to use to translate to the language you need, check out this documentation

Acknowledgements

• Immersive Translation sponsors monthly Pro membership redemption codes for active contributors to this project, see details at: CONTRIBUTOR_REWARD.md

• SiliconFlow provides a free translation service for this project, powered by large language models (LLMs).

• 1.x version: Byaidu/PDFMathTranslate

• backend: BabelDOC

• PDF Library: PyMuPDF

• PDF Parsing: Pdfminer.six

• PDF Preview: Gradio PDF

• Layout Parsing: DocLayout-YOLO

• PDF Standards: PDF Explained, PDF Cheat Sheets

• Multilingual Font: see BabelDOC-Assets

• Asynchronize

• Rich logging with multiprocessing

• Documentation i18n using Weblate

Before submit your code

We welcome the active participation of contributors to make pdf2zh better. Before you are ready to submit your code, please refer to our Code of Conduct and Contribution Guide.

Contributors

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