Readable

What Readable is

A PDF translation tool built around keeping the document looking like the document. Rather than extracting text and returning a paragraph, it translates within the layout so headings, tables and figures stay where they were.

The site also emphasises specialist terminology and reading the result alongside the original, which suits technical material.

What you can do with it

• Translate a PDF while keeping the layout
• Compare the translation against the source
• Work with specialist terminology
• Prepare a first translated version for review
• Handle documents where structure carries meaning

Who it is for

• Businesses translating technical documents
• Researchers reading foreign-language papers
• Teams handling multilingual PDFs
• Anyone who has rebuilt a layout after a bad translation

What to watch out for

• The official site is in Japanese, so confirm language pairs and support in a language you work in
• Machine translation of legal, medical or contractual text still needs professional review
• Complex layouts will not survive perfectly every time
• Uploading confidential documents means checking where they are processed and for how long