Is the English-to-Korean document translator free?

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 translate a scanned or photographed Korean document?

Yes. Upload a JPG, PNG, or HEIC photo, or a scan-only PDF, and we run OCR before translating. Printed Hangul reads very reliably; clear handwriting and older mixed Hangul-Hanja documents usually work but are worth spot-checking. Shoot the page straight-on in good light — Hangul syllable blocks are compact, and a sharp image is the difference between a clean read and a garbled one.

What file formats and sizes are supported?

PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, and EPUB, plus photographed or scanned documents as JPG, PNG, or HEIC. Free and Pro accept up to 20MB and 100,000 extracted characters per file; Scholar accepts up to 50MB and 1,000,000 characters per document.

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

Fast is a strong general translator and is what the free tier uses. Advanced runs a frontier model and is noticeably better at the things Korean punishes: keeping a consistent formal register (-습니다 vs. plain style), untangling long clause-final legal sentences, inferring the subjects that Korean drops, and resolving Sino-Korean homophones from context. For a contract, a civil certificate, or anything you will act on, 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.

Can I use the translation for USCIS or other official submissions?

Use it to get an accurate, complete English text of your Korean certificate — most agencies, including USCIS, additionally require a signed statement certifying the translator's competence, which a machine translation alone does not carry. Many people translate here first to verify contents and catch name-spelling issues, then have the certification prepared. One tip: fix the romanization of names to match your passport spelling (이 can be Lee, Yi, or Rhee) before anything is submitted.

Does it handle Korean to English as well as English to Korean?

Yes. Choose English or Korean as the target language in the uploader. Source detection does not change your selected target. Korean-to-English is the more common direction for certificates and records; English-to-Korean is typical for business documents, manuals, and letters to family. It also handles documents that mix the two, like bilingual contracts.

Korean PDF & Document Translator — English ↔ Korean

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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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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 Korean documents come out

Upload a PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, or EPUB file — or a photo of a paper document — and get it translated between English and Korean in minutes. Choose clean translated text to read, or the same file back with its layout preserved — you decide before translating. It works in both directions: English to Korean for documents headed to Korea, and Korean to English for certificates, contracts, and records coming the other way.

Korean is written in Hangul, an alphabet whose letters stack into square syllable blocks, and modern documents run left to right in horizontal lines — vertical, right-to-left layout survives only on book spines and in some pre-1990s records. Formal and legal paperwork still mixes in Hanja (Chinese characters), usually in parentheses after a name or legal term to pin down which of several identically spelled Sino-Korean words is meant; older certificates, deeds, and family registers can be mostly Hanja. Layout conventions differ from English in ways that matter for documents: dates are written year-first (2026년 7월 20일), family names come before given names, official documents carry a personal seal (도장) where English documents carry a signature, and large numbers group by ten thousand (만) rather than by thousand — 1억 is 100,000,000, a standing source of errors in financial tables. The translation is fitted into the original layout, with type size and line breaks adjusted where the translated text runs longer.

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 Korean

Immigration and civil documents

Korean civil records — the family relation certificate (가족관계증명서), basic certificate (기본증명서), marriage relation certificate (혼인관계증명서), and resident registration copy (주민등록등본) — are the documents Korean-Americans most often need in English for green card, K-visa, and citizenship filings. These are dense, table-heavy forms with fixed legal phrasing and names that must be romanized consistently. Upload the PDF or a phone photo of the certificate and get a faithful English rendering of every field, so you know exactly what the document says before you commission a certified copy for submission.

Academic records and research

Korea sends one of the world's largest cohorts of international students, and every application starts with a transcript (성적증명서) and graduation certificate (졸업증명서) in English. In the other direction, researchers working on Korean topics hit paywalls of untranslated theses, government white papers, and journal PDFs. Both directions work here: upload the registrar's PDF or a scanned academic record.

Business with Korean partners

Contracts, product specifications, PPTX pitch decks, and XLSX price lists move constantly between English and Korean firms. Korean business documents are written in specific registers — correspondence in the formal -습니다 style, internal reports in plain 한다체 — and the Advanced tier is built to hold the right register throughout instead of drifting into casual phrasing mid-document. Translate the incoming Korean proposal to English to understand it fully, and translate your reply's attachments back.

Family papers and adoption records

Hundreds of thousands of Korean adoptees hold case files, intake forms, and letters they cannot read — often typewritten, sometimes handwritten, sometimes in the mixed Hangul-Hanja script of older records. The same goes for second-generation Korean-Americans with boxes of letters from grandparents. Photograph the pages (JPG, PNG, or HEIC) and upload them; OCR plus translation turns them into English text you can actually read, page by page.

What to watch for in Korean document translation

The most common failures in Korean document translation follow directly from the grammar. Korean drops subjects and pronouns whenever context makes them recoverable, so sentence-by-sentence machine translation regularly guesses the wrong subject — a case file's 'was transferred to the orphanage' can silently become 'I transferred' or 'he transferred.' Going into Korean, register is the trap: documents are written in fixed speech levels, and output that drifts between the formal -습니다 style and plain 한다체 reads as careless or rude to a Korean recipient. Korean's verb-final word order means the operative meaning of a long contractual sentence lands at the very end, and translators that chunk mid-sentence garble it. Sino-Korean homophones that print identically in Hangul (연패 is both 'winning streak' and 'losing streak') need context or the parenthetical Hanja to resolve. Numbers get mangled at the 만/억 boundary because Korean groups by ten thousand — 3억 원 is 300 million won, not 3 billion. And romanized names are not deterministic: 박 can be Park or Bak, 이 can be Lee, Yi, or Rhee, so a translated certificate must match the spelling already on the passport. The Advanced tier translates with full-document context specifically to keep subjects, register, and numbers consistent across pages.

Korean document translation FAQ

Is the English-to-Korean document translator free?: 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 translate a scanned or photographed Korean document?: Yes. Upload a JPG, PNG, or HEIC photo, or a scan-only PDF, and we run OCR before translating. Printed Hangul reads very reliably; clear handwriting and older mixed Hangul-Hanja documents usually work but are worth spot-checking. Shoot the page straight-on in good light — Hangul syllable blocks are compact, and a sharp image is the difference between a clean read and a garbled one.
What file formats and sizes are supported?: PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, and EPUB, plus photographed or scanned documents as JPG, PNG, or HEIC. Free and Pro accept up to 20MB and 100,000 extracted characters per file; Scholar accepts up to 50MB and 1,000,000 characters per document.
How accurate is it? What is the difference between Fast and Advanced?: Fast is a strong general translator and is what the free tier uses. Advanced runs a frontier model and is noticeably better at the things Korean punishes: keeping a consistent formal register (-습니다 vs. plain style), untangling long clause-final legal sentences, inferring the subjects that Korean drops, and resolving Sino-Korean homophones from context. For a contract, a civil certificate, or anything you will act on, 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.
Can I use the translation for USCIS or other official submissions?: Use it to get an accurate, complete English text of your Korean certificate — most agencies, including USCIS, additionally require a signed statement certifying the translator's competence, which a machine translation alone does not carry. Many people translate here first to verify contents and catch name-spelling issues, then have the certification prepared. One tip: fix the romanization of names to match your passport spelling (이 can be Lee, Yi, or Rhee) before anything is submitted.
Does it handle Korean to English as well as English to Korean?: Yes. Choose English or Korean as the target language in the uploader. Source detection does not change your selected target. Korean-to-English is the more common direction for certificates and records; English-to-Korean is typical for business documents, manuals, and letters to family. It also handles documents that mix the two, like bilingual contracts.

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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