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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, Telegram Group or QQ Group.

Updates

• [Dec. 19 2024] Non-PDF/A documents are now supported using -cp (by @reycn)
• [Dec. 13 2024] Additional support for backend by (by @YadominJinta)
• [Dec. 10 2024] The translator now supports OpenAI models on Azure (by @yidasanqian)

Preview

Online Service 🌟

You can try our application out using either of the following demos:

• Public free service online without installation (recommended).
• Demo hosted on HuggingFace
• Demo hosted on ModelScope without installation.

Note that the computing resources of the demo are limited, so please avoid abusing them.

Installation and Usage

Methods

For different use cases, we provide four distinct methods to use our program:

1. Commandline

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

2. Install our package:

   pip install pdf2zh

3. Execute translation, files generated in current working directory:

   pdf2zh document.pdf

2. Portable (w/o Python installed)

1. Download setup.bat

2. Double-click to run.

3. Graphic user interface

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.

4. Docker

1. Pull and run:

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

2. Open in browser:

   http://localhost:7860/
   

For docker deployment on cloud service:

Unable to install?

The present program needs an AI model(wybxc/DocLayout-YOLO-DocStructBench-onnx) before working and some users are not able to download due to network issues. If you have a problem with downloading this model, we provide a workaround using the following environment variable:

set HF_ENDPOINT=https://hf-mirror.com

If the solution does not work to you / you encountered other issues, please refer to frequently asked questions.

Advanced Options

Execute the translation command in the command line to generate the translated document example-mono.pdf and the bilingual document example-dual.pdf in the current working directory. Use Google as the default translation service.

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

Option	Function	Example
files	Local files	pdf2zh ~/local.pdf
links	Online files	pdf2zh http://arxiv.org/paper.pdf
-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
-o	Output dir	pdf2zh example.pdf -o output
-f, -c	Exceptions	pdf2zh example.pdf -f "(MS.*)"
-cp	Compatibility Mode	pdf2zh example.pdf --compatible
--share	Public link	pdf2zh -i --share
--authorized	Authorization	pdf2zh -i --authorized users.txt [auth.html]
--prompt	Custom Prompt	pdf2zh --prompt [prompt.txt]

For detailed explanations, please refer to our document about Advanced Usage for a full list of each option.

Secondary Development (APIs)

For downstream applications, please refer to our document about API Details for futher information about:

• Python API, how to use the program in other Python programs
• HTTP API, how to communicate with a server with the program installed

TODOs

• Parse layout with DocLayNet based models, PaddleX, PaperMage, SAM2

• Fix page rotation, table of contents, format of lists

• Fix pixel formula in old papers

• Async retry except KeyboardInterrupt

• Knuth–Plass algorithm for western languages

• Support non-PDF/A files

• Plugins of Zotero and Obsidian

Acknowledgements

• Document merging: PyMuPDF

• Document parsing: Pdfminer.six

• Document extraction: MinerU

• Document Preview: Gradio PDF

• Multi-threaded translation: MathTranslate

• Layout parsing: DocLayout-YOLO

• Document standard: PDF Explained, PDF Cheat Sheets

• Multilingual Font: Go Noto Universal

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