Translate Documents Into 100+ Languages With AI

Old-school document translators do one thing: extract raw text, translate the words, and dump the result into a plain text file. That worked for casual use, but it fails for anything real — contracts, research papers, textbooks, government forms.

NovaDocs AI's AI Translator takes a different approach: it preserves the document's structure. Headings remain headings. Tables keep their columns. Lists stay lists. Right-to-left languages render correctly. The translated file looks like the original — just in a different language.

Why layout-preserving translation matters

• Legal documents rely on numbered clauses
• Academic papers rely on section hierarchies
• Financial reports rely on tables and figures
• Textbooks rely on chapters, headings and callouts

A flat text translation destroys all of that. NovaDocs AI keeps the visual and semantic structure so the translated document remains usable.

100+ languages, including the ones others forget

Most translators support the big 20. NovaDocs AI supports over 100, with special attention to South Asian languages that are typically underserved:

• English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese
• Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi — full RTL support
• Urdu — RTL, ligature-aware rendering
• Sindhi — full script and RTL support
• Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu
• Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Japanese, Korean

It works on scanned documents too

Uploaded a scanned image or a photo of a page? NovaDocs AI runs its OCR engine first to extract the text, then translates it — all in one step. This is essential for legacy documents, handwritten notes and photographed textbook pages.

How translation works inside NovaDocs AI

Step by step:

• Upload your file — PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX or image
• Pick a target language (auto-detects the source)
• NovaDocs AI extracts text, preserving layout metadata
• The AI translates each block in context, not word-by-word
• The output is rebuilt into the original layout
• Download as PDF, DOCX or plain text

Contextual translation beats word-by-word

A key difference: NovaDocs AI translates paragraphs, not tokens. That means idioms, technical terms and domain-specific phrases are handled in context. A legal document translated from English to Urdu preserves the meaning of "consideration" as a contractual term, not the everyday sense of "thoughtfulness".

I needed a Sindhi translation of a 40-page policy document. It kept the numbered clauses intact and read like a native document.

Combine translation with other tools

After translating, use AI Summarizer to get a quick recap in the target language, or Chat with PDF to ask questions about the translated document. For distribution, run the file through Compress PDF to shrink it for email, or Sign PDF to add a signature.

Try it now

Open the AI Translator, upload a document, and pick a target language. The first translation is free — no signup required.

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