Reglyph

Reglyph is an online AI translation tool built specifically for scanned and image-only PDFs: the translated text is laid back into the original positions, so tables, columns, stamps and signatures all stay where they were. It is built by an independent developer and targets the narrow niche where general-purpose translators fail — "scanned documents only + layout preservation" — for immigration, legal, research and engineering users who need their document formatting kept intact.

Core capabilities

• Translate scans directly: phone photos or image-only PDFs need no pre-processing; OCR → erase → translate → re-typeset in a single pass
• Layout preservation: the translation is laid back into the original positions, with multi-column text, tables, headers and footers and numbering each back in place
• Non-text elements kept: stamps, signatures, logos, images and figures are preserved as they were
• Automatic deskewing: landscape or portrait scanned pages are straightened automatically and restored to their original orientation after translation
• Bilingual comparison: export a side-by-side PDF of original and translated pages and drag a slider to compare page by page
• Completion notice: an email when the translation is done, plus a multilingual interface and one-click Google sign-in

Use cases Scanned documents such as birth certificates, marriage certificates, transcripts, degree certificates, bank statements, medical records, contracts, technical manuals and paper manuscripts. Typical users are immigration and study-abroad applicants, legal and business professionals, researchers, engineers, and translation professionals who want a "already typeset first draft" to certify by hand.

What sets it apart Google Translate and DeepL cannot read the text layer of a scan, and ChatGPT/Gemini can only return text rather than a document — Reglyph fills that gap with full-page re-typesetting plus stamps and signatures kept in place, and its pricing from $0.30 per page is also lower than comparable layout-preserving tools.

Editorial take The free allowance is genuine (5 pages a day on a recurring reset), and the terms are candid (explicitly no training on user documents, jobs deleted about 24 hours after completion). But be clear-eyed: this is a very early product from a solo independent developer, with no registered entity, no disclosed jurisdiction and only about 3–4 months on the market, so continuity risk is moderate to high; and it is machine translation, not certified translation, so important documents still need human verification. Try your own documents on the daily free allowance first before deciding.