Sememe: Document Translator

Sememe translates PDF, Word and Excel files and photos and gives you back the same file, laid out as it was, in the same typefaces, with numbers, dates and IBANs exactly as written. Translation happens on your device and works offline. 25 languages are supported. Open a PDF, Word (.docx) or Excel (.xlsx) file or a photo of a letter, or on iPhone and iPad point the camera at a paper letter. Sememe reads the original, translates it on your device and writes a copy you can read, preview, save and share. Headings, tables, amounts, dates, reference numbers and bank details stay where they were, as they were written. FORMAT-AWARE TRANSLATION • PDF: every page drawn as it was, each passage replaced by its translation in the same place • Word: paragraphs, tables, headers and footers translated in place; styles untouched • Excel: cell text translated; formulas, numbers and sheet structure left alone, and text a formula looks for kept as written so totals still add up • Photos and images (HEIC, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and more): the text read on the device and translated over the picture, as a PDF; a letter photographed page by page becomes one document • Numbers, dates, amounts, IBANs and reference numbers kept exactly as written ON YOUR DEVICE Translation runs on Apple's on-device models. Nothing is uploaded; there is no account and no server. The first time you need a language pair, the app asks the system to download it, and after that it works offline, on a train or in a waiting room. CHECK IT AGAINST THE ORIGINAL Switch between the translation and the original in the side panel, which also lists the places worth checking against the original, and copy the translated text. Every translated PDF and Word file carries a line saying it is a machine translation, not a certified one. MANY LANGUAGES Sememe translates between the 25 languages Apple's on-device translation covers, among them Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Sememe runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Sememe is a machine translation to help you understand a document, not a certified translation. Where an authority asks for a sworn translation, you still need a translator. Made by Quiet Signals Lab, Amsterdam.