pdf2zh 1.7.6

Latex PDF Translator

English | 简体中文

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PDF scientific paper translation and bilingual comparison.

• 📊 Retain formulas and charts.

• 📄 Preserve table of contents.

• 🌐 Support multiple translation services.

Feel free to provide feedback in issues or user group.

Installation

Require Python version >=3.8, <=3.12

pip install pdf2zh

Usage

Execute the translation command in the command line to generate the translated document example-zh.pdf and the bilingual document example-dual.pdf in the current directory. Use Google as the default translation service.

Please refer to ChatGPT for how to set environment variables.

Full / partial document translation

• Entire document

  pdf2zh example.pdf
  

• Part of the document

  pdf2zh example.pdf -p 1-3,5
  

Specify source and target languages

See Google Languages Codes, DeepL Languages Codes

pdf2zh example.pdf -li en -lo ja

Translate with Different Services

• DeepL

  See DeepL

  Set ENVs to construct an endpoint like: {DEEPL_SERVER_URL}/translate

  • DEEPL_SERVER_URL (Optional), e.g., export DEEPL_SERVER_URL=https://api.deepl.com
  • DEEPL_AUTH_KEY, e.g., export DEEPL_AUTH_KEY=xxx

  pdf2zh example.pdf -s deepl
  

• DeepLX

  See DeepLX

  Set ENVs to construct an endpoint like: {DEEPL_SERVER_URL}/translate

  • DEEPLX_SERVER_URL (Optional), e.g., export DEEPLX_SERVER_URL=https://api.deeplx.org
  • DEEPLX_AUTH_KEY, e.g., export DEEPLX_AUTH_KEY=xxx

  pdf2zh example.pdf -s deeplx
  

• Ollama

  See Ollama

  Set ENVs to construct an endpoint like: {OLLAMA_HOST}/api/chat

  • OLLAMA_HOST (Optional), e.g., export OLLAMA_HOST=https://localhost:11434

  pdf2zh example.pdf -s ollama:gemma2
  

• LLM with OpenAI compatible schemas (OpenAI / SiliconCloud / Zhipu)

  See SiliconCloud, Zhipu

  Set ENVs to construct an endpoint like: {OPENAI_BASE_URL}/chat/completions

  • OPENAI_BASE_URL (Optional), e.g., export OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://api.openai.com/v1
  • OPENAI_API_KEY, e.g., export OPENAI_API_KEY=xxx

  pdf2zh example.pdf -s openai:gpt-4o
  

• Azure

  See Azure Text Translation

  Following ENVs are required:

  • AZURE_APIKEY, e.g., export AZURE_APIKEY=xxx
  • AZURE_ENDPOINT, e.g, export AZURE_ENDPOINT=https://api.translator.azure.cn/
  • AZURE_REGION, e.g., export AZURE_REGION=chinaeast2

  pdf2zh example.pdf -s azure
  

Translate wih exceptions

Use regex to specify formula fonts and characters that need to be preserved.

pdf2zh example.pdf -f "(CM[^RT].*|MS.*|.*Ital)" -c "(\(|\||\)|\+|=|\d|[\u0080-\ufaff])"

Interact with GUI

pdf2zh -i

See documentation for GUI for more details.

Preview

Acknowledgement

Document merging: PyMuPDF

Document parsing: Pdfminer.six

Document extraction: MinerU

Multi-threaded translation: MathTranslate

Layout parsing: DocLayout-YOLO

Document standard: PDF Explained, PDF Cheat Sheets

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