PDFMathTranslate
PDF scientific paper translation with preserved formats
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Decision brief
A specialized PDF translation tool for scientific papers that maintains original formatting, supporting multilingual translations via multiple services.
Good fit when
- You need to translate scientific papers in PDF format while preserving complex mathematical notation and layout integrity.
- Integration with external AI translation services like Google Translate or DeepL is preferred, offering flexibility.
Avoid when
- Your use case does not involve translating PDF documents with specific formatting preservation needs such as mathematical equations.
- You require a solution that exclusively uses one type of license, incompatible with AGPL-3.0 licensing.
Observed Jul 16, 2026 · Source: enrich:decision_facts
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Maintenance and security
Full trust report- Maintenance
- Steady (61d since push)
- As of 4w
- Provenance
- Not a fork · Organization account
- As of 4w
- Security (OSV)
- No MCP manifest
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Install
pip install PDFMathTranslate PyPISimilar tools
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Overview
A tool for translating PDF documents while preserving original formatting, supporting multiple languages and integration services.
Capability facts
- Deploy
- Self-host
Source: dockerfile:Dockerfile · Jul 26, 2026
- Docker
- Dockerfile present
Source: dockerfile:Dockerfile · Jul 26, 2026
- CLI
- CLI entrypoint
Source: pyproject.toml:[project.scripts] · Jul 26, 2026
- Languages
- python
Source: github.language+pyproject.toml · Jul 26, 2026
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README
1. What does this do?
Scientific PDF document translation preserving layouts.
- 📊 Preserve formulas, charts, table of contents, and annotations.
- 🌐 Support multiple languages, and diverse translation services.
- 🤖 Provides commandline tool, interactive user interface, and Docker
2. Recent Updates
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[March 23, 2026] Experimental support for v2.0 translation kernel using isolated environment (
--mode precise). (by @reycn) -
[March 22, 2026] Supporting MiniMax (PR by @octo-patch)
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[March 22, 2026] Fixing OpenAI-related issues (PR by @samqin123)
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[March 22, 2026] Fixing HTTP-related issues (PR by @soukouki)
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[March 22, 2026] Faster model loading on mac and OONX platforms, GUI starting-up, version printing, and continuous integration.(by @reycn)
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[May 9, 2025] pdf2zh 2.0 Preview Version #586: The Windows ZIP file and Docker image are now available.
[!NOTE]
2.0 Moved to a new repository under the organization: PDFMathTranslate/PDFMathTranslate-next
Version 2.0 official release has been published.
3. Use 🌟
3.1 Online Service 🌟
You can try our application out using eithe
For agents
This page has a .md twin and JSON over the API.