How to translate an Arabic PDF to English
By PDFEditor.ae · Published
How do I translate an Arabic PDF to English?
Open Translate PDF, upload the PDF and click Read the document. Choose Arabic → English and the pages (up to 20 at a time), tick the consent box and click Translate. Each page is shown next to its English translation, and any number missing from the translation is flagged. Click Download text to save it. It is a machine translation for understanding a document, not a certified legal translation.
Step by step
- Upload the PDF and click Read the document. Digital pages are read directly; scanned pages are recognised in your browser first.
- Under Direction choose Arabic → English. The same tool translates English → Arabic.
- Enter the pages to translate, up to 20 per run.
- Read the notice and tick I agree to send this text to OpenAI. Only the text of those pages is sent, not the PDF file.
- Click Translate and compare each page with the original beside it.
- Click Download text to save the translation as a text file.
What the translation keeps and what it does not
- Names, dates, amounts, units and reference numbers are kept as printed. If a number from the original is missing in the translation, it is flagged so you can check it.
- Layout, fonts, tables and images are not kept. You get the translated text only.
- In our test with the live AI service on a synthetic document, every number in an English → Arabic translation was kept. Real documents vary, so always compare important figures.
- Text inside your document is treated as content, never as instructions to the AI.
Privacy before you translate
PDFEditor.ae does not store the text you send or the translation. OpenAI may keep API data for up to 30 days for abuse monitoring and does not use it for training. A daily number of AI requests is included, and the tool shows how many are left. Read the privacy policy for details, and do not send documents you are not allowed to share with a service provider.
When you need a certified translation instead
Courts, ministries and many official bodies in the UAE ask for a legal translation made by a licensed legal translator, usually stamped and signed. A machine translation does not meet that requirement. Ask the receiving authority what it accepts before you submit anything.
If you are preparing files for a legal translator, the legal translation tools help you clean up scans, count words, bundle documents and check a finished translation against its original.