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PDF scientific paper translation with preserved formats

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36k stars3.2k forksLast push 3mo Python AGPL-3.0

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

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Steady (61d since push)
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Not a fork · Organization account
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Install

pip install PDFMathTranslate
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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


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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

  • [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)

  • [March 22, 2026] Fixing OpenAI-related issues (PR by @samqin123)

  • [March 22, 2026] Fixing HTTP-related issues (PR by @soukouki)

  • [March 22, 2026] Faster model loading on mac and OONX platforms, GUI starting-up, version printing, and continuous integration.(by @reycn)

  • [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.

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