Is it free to translate an Egyptian Arabic document?

You can try it free, with no account needed, and signing in gives you a larger daily allowance. Pro and Scholar are there for longer documents and regular use.

Can it read screenshots, photos of letters and handwritten Egyptian Arabic?

Yes. Upload a JPG, PNG or HEIC image or a scanned PDF and the text is recognized before translation; Franco written in Latin letters usually comes through as well. Chat screenshots work well when the text is legible at full size; keep the sender names and timestamps in the crop, because they help the translation keep who said what straight. Handwriting in ruq'ah is a mixed case: a neat note comes through, a hurried one with merged letters and dropped dots leaves gaps, so check names and numbers against the original.

How accurate is it? What is the difference between Fast and Advanced?

Fast is fine for getting the gist of a thread. Advanced runs a frontier model and is the tier for dialect: it reads Franco spellings and inconsistent Arabic-script spellings as the same words, knows that مش, إيه, ده and عايز are not typos of Standard Arabic, understands negation with ما...ش and the b- and h- verb prefixes, and carries tone, irony and honorifics (يا باشا, يا حج) into natural English rather than literal titles. For scripts, lyrics and anything you will cite, use Advanced.

Will the translation keep my document's original layout?

The translator produces a translated PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel or EPUB file that aims to preserve the original layout, including tables, columns and headers. Text size, fonts and line breaks may change, so review the result against the original. Chat exports keep their message order; mixed Arabic and Latin lines are handled but the page is not mirrored, so check timestamps and any English fragments against the original.

Can I use this for a court, an embassy or an immigration file?

Not directly. If a chat log or letter is going into a visa, asylum or custody file, the authority will want a certified translation with a signed statement of accuracy, and Egyptian official documents (which are in Standard Arabic) need the same. Use this to read the material, decide which pages matter and prepare a draft, then have a certified translator produce the version you submit.

When should I use this page instead of the Arabic page, and what do I get when translating into Egyptian?

Choose Egyptian Arabic when the text is in dialect: messages, scripts, lyrics, posts, transcripts. Choose Arabic for anything formal, since official, legal, academic and news documents in Egypt are written in Modern Standard Arabic. Translating into Egyptian Arabic gives you Cairene colloquial in Arabic script, in the informal register of the source; it is meant for dialogue, ads and messages, not for a document an Egyptian ministry or court will read.

What file types can I upload?

PDF, DOCX (Word), PPTX (PowerPoint), XLSX (Excel) and EPUB, plus photographed or scanned pages and screenshots as JPG, PNG or HEIC. Chat threads can come in as screenshots or saved as a PDF. Free and Pro accept up to 20MB and 100,000 extracted characters per file; Scholar accepts up to 50MB and 1,000,000 characters.

Egyptian Arabic PDF & Document Translator — English ↔ Egyptian Arabic

Translate English to Egyptian Arabic or Egyptian Arabic to English while preserving your document’s layout. Upload your file, choose the target language, and get a natural translation that keeps the meaning of the original.

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A civil complaint filed in Mexico City, Spanish to English. Caption block, numbered pleadings, the evidence table and the signature block all keep their places. — Original — A civil complaint filed in Mexico City, Spanish to English. Caption block, numbered pleadings, the evidence table and the signature block all keep their places.

An Italian birth certificate, photographed rather than scanned. The framed masthead, the field grid, the marginal annotations and the round seal all hold their positions. — Original — An Italian birth certificate, photographed rather than scanned. The framed masthead, the field grid, the marginal annotations and the round seal all hold their positions.

A handwritten archaeological field notebook from 1974. The engine reads the hand and keeps the ruled inventory table intact. — Original — A handwritten archaeological field notebook from 1974. The engine reads the hand and keeps the ruled inventory table intact.

A handwritten archaeological field notebook from 1974. The engine reads the hand and keeps the ruled inventory table intact. — Translation — A handwritten archaeological field notebook from 1974. The engine reads the hand and keeps the ruled inventory table intact.

A German hospital discharge summary. Diagnoses with ICD codes, lab values and the medication table survive the translation unchanged. — Original — A German hospital discharge summary. Diagnoses with ICD codes, lab values and the medication table survive the translation unchanged.

A German hospital discharge summary. Diagnoses with ICD codes, lab values and the medication table survive the translation unchanged. — Translation — A German hospital discharge summary. Diagnoses with ICD codes, lab values and the medication table survive the translation unchanged.

A 1747 parish baptism register in Latin. Ruled columns, godparents and marginal notes stay aligned, so the genealogy still reads as a register. — Original — A 1747 parish baptism register in Latin. Ruled columns, godparents and marginal notes stay aligned, so the genealogy still reads as a register.

A 1747 parish baptism register in Latin. Ruled columns, godparents and marginal notes stay aligned, so the genealogy still reads as a register. — Translation — A 1747 parish baptism register in Latin. Ruled columns, godparents and marginal notes stay aligned, so the genealogy still reads as a register.

A scanned 17th-century Italian index of sermons. Two columns of dense small print, translated in place. — Original — A scanned 17th-century Italian index of sermons. Two columns of dense small print, translated in place.

A scanned 17th-century Italian index of sermons. Two columns of dense small print, translated in place. — Translation — A scanned 17th-century Italian index of sermons. Two columns of dense small print, translated in place.

How Egyptian Arabic documents come out

Translate Egyptian Arabic (Masri) into English or English into Egyptian Arabic while keeping the layout of the file. This page is for material actually written in the dialect: WhatsApp and Messenger threads saved as PDFs or screenshots, family letters, Facebook posts and comments, film and television scripts, song lyrics, colloquial poetry, ad copy and interview transcripts. Egyptian official documents (birth certificates, the national ID, marriage contracts, court papers) are written in Modern Standard Arabic and belong on the Arabic documents page.

Egyptian Arabic is written in the ordinary Arabic alphabet, right to left, but with habits of its own. There is no official spelling for the dialect, so the same word appears in several forms (عايز and عاوز, هيروح and حيروح), the letter ج stands for the Egyptian g sound, ق is usually written even where it is pronounced as a glottal stop, and Egyptian writers commonly leave the final ي undotted as ى and drop the hamza from an initial alif. Chat and social text is often not in Arabic script at all but in Franco (Franco-Arab, the Egyptian name for Arabizi): Latin letters with digits standing in for Arabic sounds, 2 for the hamza, 3 for ع, 5 for خ, 7 for ح, 8 for غ, so 'ana 3ayez a2olak 7aga' is a normal sentence. Printed and official material uses Eastern Arabic-Indic digits (٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩) while chats often use Western ones. Handwritten notes are usually in ruq'ah, the everyday hand of Egypt and the Levant, which merges letters and shortens words. A single document often mixes registers: a Standard Arabic opening formula or Qur'anic quotation, dialect body text, and English words in Latin letters, so lines change direction mid-sentence. Arabic PDFs also carry broken text layers that copy out reversed or disconnected; we read those pages visually.

Translate your document and keep its structure

The translator keeps your file’s structure while translating the text in context. The downloaded format depends on the source file.

PDFs and scanned pages: The translated PDF follows the page visually, with translated pages rendered as images. Selectable PDF text and identical fonts are not guaranteed.
Word documents and PowerPoint presentations: Start with DOCX or PPTX when you have it. Native paragraphs, table text and slide text can stay editable in the corresponding file format. Translated text inside pictures remains image content; review text wrapping and font changes in your editor.
Excel workbooks and EPUB books: Use the original XLSX or unprotected EPUB for a translated workbook or ebook. Review formulas, numbers and text cells in a workbook; check chapter order, navigation and text flow in your ebook reader.

What people translate to and from Egyptian Arabic

Chats, letters and social media

Most Egyptian Arabic that gets translated is personal: WhatsApp and Messenger histories exported to PDF or captured as screenshots, emails and letters from relatives in Cairo or Alexandria to family in the Gulf, Europe or North America, Facebook posts, comments and group threads, all in dialect and often in Franco. People read them to follow a family matter, to understand a conversation with a partner's family, or because a chat log has become evidence in a visa or custody case. The tone matters as much as the words: endearments, sarcasm, and formulas like معلش and إن شاء الله carry meanings a dictionary does not give. Use Advanced for anything where tone counts.

Film, TV and theatre scripts

Egyptian cinema and Ramadan television series set the dialect the whole Arab world understands, so screenplays, dialogue lists, sitcom scripts, stand-up and theatre texts move through translation constantly: into English for co-productions, festival submissions, subtitling drafts and academic study, and from English into Egyptian for dubbing and localization drafts. Upload the DOCX or PDF and the scene structure, character cues and stage directions keep their places. Colloquial dialogue is where a Standard-Arabic-trained tool fails hardest; Advanced reads insults, jokes and street register as what they are. Output into Egyptian aims for the register a Cairene audience expects, and it is a draft for a script editor, not a finished subtitle file.

Lyrics, colloquial poetry and fiction

Much of the Egyptian song repertoire from Umm Kulthum and Abdel Halim Hafez to Amr Diab and today's mahraganat, the colloquial poetry (shiʿr al-ʿāmmiyya) of Salah Jahin, Ahmed Fouad Negm and Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi, and the dialect dialogue in contemporary Egyptian novels and comics are written in Masri, and translators, students and fans upload them by the page. Rhyme and wordplay do not survive machine translation, but meaning does, and the output is a usable crib for a close reading or a singable adaptation. Poetry collections and novels in EPUB or PDF work as whole files.

Marketing, research transcripts and official papers

Egyptian brands write ads, social posts and customer messages in dialect, and researchers transcribe interviews, focus groups and survey answers in it, so localization teams and social scientists translate in both directions, usually in Word or Excel with speaker labels and question columns kept in place. For official documents the answer is different: Egyptian birth certificates, the national ID card, marriage contracts, court judgments, university certificates and commercial-register extracts are written in Modern Standard Arabic, whatever the clerk speaks, and the Arabic documents page is the right tool for them.

Arabic (Modern Standard) documents

What to watch for in Egyptian Arabic document translation

The first trap is treating the dialect as broken Standard Arabic. Tools trained on formal Arabic read مش as a typo, guess at إيه, ده and دلوقتي, and miss the ما...ش negation, so ما رحتش comes back as 'I went'. The second is Franco: Latin-letter Egyptian with digits gets mistaken for English or for gibberish. Then spelling: عايز and عاوز, final ى for ي, missing hamzas and ة written as ه all describe the same words, and a translator has to normalize rather than stall. Names are romanized the Egyptian way (Gamal, Gihan, Naguib, not Jamal, Jihan, Najib) and Mohamed has several accepted spellings; keep whatever the passport uses. Meaning shifts across dialects: عافية is health or strength in Egypt and fire in Morocco, and Egyptian idioms (يا سلام, خلاص, معلش, ولا يهمك) are tone markers, not statements. Honorifics such as يا باشا and يا أستاذ are politeness, not ranks; endearments between men are ordinary; and an إن شاء الله can be a yes, a maybe or a polite no depending on the sentence. Add Eastern Arabic-Indic digits in printed text, Standard Arabic religious formulas inside dialect letters, and ruq'ah handwriting that drops dots, and the safe practice is clear: Advanced, then a native reader for anything that will be cited or filed.

Egyptian Arabic document translation FAQ

Is it free to translate an Egyptian Arabic document?: You can try it free, with no account needed, and signing in gives you a larger daily allowance. Pro and Scholar are there for longer documents and regular use.
Can it read screenshots, photos of letters and handwritten Egyptian Arabic?: Yes. Upload a JPG, PNG or HEIC image or a scanned PDF and the text is recognized before translation; Franco written in Latin letters usually comes through as well. Chat screenshots work well when the text is legible at full size; keep the sender names and timestamps in the crop, because they help the translation keep who said what straight. Handwriting in ruq'ah is a mixed case: a neat note comes through, a hurried one with merged letters and dropped dots leaves gaps, so check names and numbers against the original.
How accurate is it? What is the difference between Fast and Advanced?: Fast is fine for getting the gist of a thread. Advanced runs a frontier model and is the tier for dialect: it reads Franco spellings and inconsistent Arabic-script spellings as the same words, knows that مش, إيه, ده and عايز are not typos of Standard Arabic, understands negation with ما...ش and the b- and h- verb prefixes, and carries tone, irony and honorifics (يا باشا, يا حج) into natural English rather than literal titles. For scripts, lyrics and anything you will cite, use Advanced.
Will the translation keep my document's original layout?: The translator produces a translated PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel or EPUB file that aims to preserve the original layout, including tables, columns and headers. Text size, fonts and line breaks may change, so review the result against the original. Chat exports keep their message order; mixed Arabic and Latin lines are handled but the page is not mirrored, so check timestamps and any English fragments against the original.
Can I use this for a court, an embassy or an immigration file?: Not directly. If a chat log or letter is going into a visa, asylum or custody file, the authority will want a certified translation with a signed statement of accuracy, and Egyptian official documents (which are in Standard Arabic) need the same. Use this to read the material, decide which pages matter and prepare a draft, then have a certified translator produce the version you submit.
When should I use this page instead of the Arabic page, and what do I get when translating into Egyptian?: Choose Egyptian Arabic when the text is in dialect: messages, scripts, lyrics, posts, transcripts. Choose Arabic for anything formal, since official, legal, academic and news documents in Egypt are written in Modern Standard Arabic. Translating into Egyptian Arabic gives you Cairene colloquial in Arabic script, in the informal register of the source; it is meant for dialogue, ads and messages, not for a document an Egyptian ministry or court will read.
What file types can I upload?: PDF, DOCX (Word), PPTX (PowerPoint), XLSX (Excel) and EPUB, plus photographed or scanned pages and screenshots as JPG, PNG or HEIC. Chat threads can come in as screenshots or saved as a PDF. Free and Pro accept up to 20MB and 100,000 extracted characters per file; Scholar accepts up to 50MB and 1,000,000 characters.

See “Keep formatting” in action

Real examples of the “Keep formatting” option: original on the left, translated document on the right. Click either page to enlarge.

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