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I built a document translator that preserves original layout (doctranslating.com)
2 points by sanusihassan 65 days ago
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DocTranslating is a browser-based document translator with 4 engines - DeepL, Gemini, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

Supports PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and 20+ code formats. Handles locked PDFs, scanned document OCR, and RTL languages like Arabic.

it also translates code files. Gemini translates comments and strings in .ts, .py, .php, .java files

while preserving syntax.

Stack: Astro.js + React, TypeScript, Node.js microservice per translator, NGINX, pm2, pdf.js for client-side analysis.

About me: I'm Sanusi (@SanusiDev on twitter/X). I previously built PDFEquips https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40337933