Translation guides
Evidence-based guides from the Polytranslator team: honest tool comparisons, workflows for documents and historical texts, and deep dives on rare languages.
- The best Google Translate alternatives (2026)Six real alternatives, organized by what you actually need.
- Polytranslator vs Google Translate (2026)475 languages vs ~250 — where each one wins, honestly.
- How to translate a PDF without losing the formattingWhy translated PDFs break, the method that keeps the page intact, and what to check afterwards.
- How to translate a scanned document or a photo of a pageCertificates, registers and posters photographed on a phone: how to shoot them and get the page back translated.
- Polytranslator vs DeepL for document translationCompare language coverage, scanned PDFs, Office files, formatting and file limits — with links to each tool's documentation.
- Document translation APIs comparedDeepL, Google, Azure, Amazon and Polytranslator: formats, scans, limits, languages, pricing and setup, from each vendor's documentation.
- Polytranslator vs ChatGPT for translationWhen a chatbot is enough, and when it invents words.
- The best document translators in 2026DOCX, PDF, EPUB, spreadsheets, and scans — honestly compared.
- The best PDF translators in 2026Whole-document translation compared across the real options.
- How to translate old family letters and recordsA practical genealogy workflow: photos, scripts, and dialects.
- The best ancient-language translators in 2026Ancient Greek to Akkadian: the four kinds of tools compared.
- Languages Google Translate doesn't supportThe 60+ language coverage gap, and where to translate them.
- What is Polytranslator?The full capability summary: 475 languages, documents, audio.