Translate a PDF from English to German

Turn an English PDF into a German one with the original layout, ready to send to German-speaking clients or colleagues.

Accepted here: .pdf and more. Up to 40 MB per file, 10 files at once.

Whether it's a product sheet for a German distributor, a policy for your Berlin office or a paper for a German review panel, the reader expects a document that looks finished. The translation is written back into the PDF itself, so you don't have to retypeset anything in German.

What to expect when translating a PDF

  • The text is replaced in place, so headings, columns, page breaks and images stay where they were. You get a PDF back, not a Word file you have to rebuild.
  • Tables keep their rows and columns. Numbers, IBANs and dates are left untouched; only the words around them are translated.
  • Scanned PDFs are not supported yet. If a PDF is only a picture of a page (you cannot select the text), the translator has nothing to read. Use the digital original, or upload a photo of the page as JPG or PNG, which works as a preview feature.

English to German

German text runs about 20 to 30 % longer than English. In a flowing document that just adds lines; in fixed boxes, table cells and slides it can make text tighter, so check those spots. The translation uses the formal "Sie", the default for business and official German.

How it works

  1. 1

    Drop the file

    Upload the original file. The source language is detected automatically, so you don't have to pick it.

  2. 2

    Pick German

    Choose German as the target. You can add more target languages and get one translated file per language.

  3. 3

    Download the same file type

    You get the same file type back with the layout kept, ready to open in the program you used before.

What happens to your file

noll is built for documents you would not paste into a free online translator. Files are processed in EU data centres, never used to train models and permanently deleted 30 minutes after the translation finishes, or as soon as you delete them yourself. There is no document history to leak later.

How your data is handled

Pricing

Translation is billed by the page. See the current plans before you upload a large batch.

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Frequently asked questions

German is longer than English. Will text overflow?

German needs about a quarter more space. In running text the PDF simply uses that space; in narrow table cells and fixed text boxes the font may be set slightly smaller to fit. Check dense pages before you send them.

Does it use "Sie" or "du"?

The formal "Sie". That is the right default for business documents. If your brand addresses customers with "du", search and replace in an editable copy afterwards.

My PDF is password-protected. Will it work?

Remove the password first. Encrypted PDFs cannot be read by the translator, and the upload will fail.

Can I edit the German version afterwards?

The result is a PDF, so small fixes need a PDF editor. If you expect to change the text, translate the Word source instead and export it to PDF at the end.

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