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PDFMathTranslate: Scientific Document Translation Preserving Layouts

Computation and Language 2025-09-23 v4 Information Retrieval Machine Learning

Abstract

Language barriers in scientific documents hinder the diffusion and development of science and technologies. However, prior efforts in translating such documents largely overlooked the information in layouts. To bridge the gap, we introduce PDFMathTranslate, the world's first open-source software for translating scientific documents while preserving layouts. Leveraging the most recent advances in large language models and precise layout detection, we contribute to the community with key improvements in precision, flexibility, and efficiency. The work has been open-sourced at https://github.com/byaidu/pdfmathtranslate with more than 222k downloads.

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@article{arxiv.2507.03009,
  title  = {PDFMathTranslate: Scientific Document Translation Preserving Layouts},
  author = {Rongxin Ouyang and Chang Chu and Zhikuang Xin and Xiangyao Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.03009},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

7 pages, 4 figures, EMNLP 2025 System Demonstration

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