pdf2zh 1.7.9

Latex PDF Translator

English | 简体中文

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

Feel free to provide feedback in GitHub Issues or Telegram Group.

Updates

• [Nov. 21 2024] GUI now supports downloading dual-document (by @reycn)
• [Nov. 20 2024] GUI now supports specifying Ollama and OpenAI models (by @IuvenisSapiens, @Byaidu)
• [Nov. 20 2024] 🌟 Demo online! (by @reycn)
• [Nov. 20 2024] Supports Docker (by @Byaidu)
• [Nov. 20 2024] Supports multiple-threads translation (by @Byaidu)
• [Nov. 19 2024] Provides an interactive graphical user interface (by @reycn)
• [Nov. 18 2024] Supports more services: DeepL, DeepLX, and Azure (by @reycn, @Hanaasagi)

Preview

Demo 🌟

You can try our demo on HuggingFace without installation.
Note that the computing resources of the demo are limited, so please avoid abusing them.

Installation and Usage

We provide three methods for using this project: Commandline, GUI, and Docker.

Method I. Commandline

1. Python installed (3.8 <= version <= 3.12)

2. Install our package

   pip install pdf2zh
   

3. Use:

   pdf2zh document.pdf
   

Method II. GUI

1. Python installed (3.8 <= version <= 3.12)

2. Install our package

   pip install pdf2zh
   

3. Start using in browser:

   pdf2zh -i
   

4. If your browswer has not been started automatically, goto

   http://localhost:7860/
   

   

See documentation for GUI for more details.

Method III. Docker

1. Pull and run:

   docker pull byaidu/pdf2zh
   docker run -p 7860:7860 byaidu/pdf2zh
   

2. Open in browser:

   http://localhost:7860/
   

For docker deployment on cloud service:

Advanced Options

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.

In the following table, we list all advanced options for reference:

Option	Function	Example
-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
-f, -c	Exceptions	pdf2zh example.pdf -f "(MS.*)"

Some services require setting environmental variables. 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])"

Specify threads

Use -t to specify how many threads to use in translation:

pdf2zh example.pdf -t 1

Acknowledgements

• 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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