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How It Works

Just upload your book, pick a language, and click "Translate"!

Original
Original eBook

Your book in its original language

AI systems analyzing, translating, rebuilding...
Translated
Translated eBook

Quality translation with preserved layout

A Great Translation Is Waiting For You

With Translate a Book with AI you...

Get A Quality Translation

Powered by our custom pipeline using some of the current best AIs in the world, your translation preserves context and nuance.

Control Style & Tone

Add custom instructions, give a reference text you like, or just let the auto-generated translation guide build a fluid translation.

Preserve Your Layout

Your book's original formatting is preserved, giving you a beautiful result you can use right away. Images, titles, bold text, links...

Use Any File Format

We support popular formats like PDF, DOCX or EPUB, professional writing softwares like InDesign IDML and Final Draft FDX, and many more.

Preview For Free

Don't risk any surprise: translate the beginning of your book for free to preview the result for your specific document.

Stay Private

Your files are automatically deleted from our server after 30 days. No AI trains on your content. No attribution to us required.

People ❤️ Our Book Translator

See what our thousands of users are saying about our service

Alessandra L.

"This service is absolutely awesome, perfectly price and run by an incredible team who are super helpful and kind. I used it to translate a book into Italian and it gave me a great first pass at the translation, which would have otherwise taken me weeks!"

53,000 words
Italian, English
DOCX book
Charli W.

"Your system has saved me a lot of painful hours haha. Thank you for your time."

48,000 words
English, Ukranian
PDF book
Vera S.

"I love that the file keeps its formatting. The translation is 95% perfect. I will for sure try some more languages in the future."

362,000 words
English, Catalan
EPUB book
Mark B.

"I had my book translated using Translate a Book with AI, and my Portuguese translator confirmed the translation was truly perfect! We only found a few minor spacing errors and one unfamiliar word in a title—nothing major at all. The quality exceeded my expectations."

6 books
English, Portuguese (Brazilian)
DOCX book
Jim

"Amazing experience. Robin carefully worked with me to make sure I was satisfied with all the translations. The output was fantastic and I would recommended this to anyone in need of great service and great product."

More than 15 books
German, English
PDF book
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10,000 & 31,000 words
Chinese, English
EPUB book
Alfred A.

"Replying just to tell you that I’ve had you translate three of my books and I’m pleased with the results. I’m fluent in Spanish and it’s remarkable how well the program translates, even metaphors."

302,400 words
English, Spanish
PDF book
Katie

"The formatting is preserved perfectly I believe. I am very satisfied with it. As long as nothing changes, I plan to continue using your service, as it has shown to be more reliable than other similar ones I have been trying so far."

More than 10 books
Korean, Japanese, English
EPUB book
Santos S.

"The translation into Portuguese [was] practically perfect."

68,600 words
Italian, Portuguese
EPUB book
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664,200 words
English, Finish
EPUB book
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A Plan For Every Use Case

Personal, professional or publishing use? We've got you covered!

Standard Mode

Great for a first draft, or when perfect consistency doesn't matter too much

Translation time
A few minutes
Powered by the same excellent AI
Full error correction pipeline
Layout is preserved
Fully private
No AI trains on your content. Files deleted forever after 30 days.
Translation guide
The AI first analyzes your whole book to produce a translation guide, increasing quality & consistency
AI fine-tuning
Consistency Basic consistency
Creativity & Fluency Basic creativity & fluency

Pro Mode

An excellent quality translation in minutes

Translation time
A few minutes
Powered by the same excellent AI
Full error correction pipeline
Layout is preserved
Fully private
No AI trains on your content. Files deleted forever after 30 days.
Translation guide
The AI first analyzes your whole book to produce a translation guide, increasing quality & consistency
AI fine-tuning
Consistency Extended consistency
Creativity & Fluency Extended creativity & fluency

Author Mode

An in-depth translation, requiring the least amount of proofreading

Translation time
A few hours
Powered by the same excellent AI
Full error correction pipeline
Layout is preserved
Fully private
No AI trains on your content. Files deleted forever after 30 days.
Translation guide
The AI first analyzes your whole book to produce a translation guide, increasing quality & consistency
AI fine-tuning
Consistency Maximum consistency
Creativity & Fluency Maximum creativity & fluency
Exact price depends on translation mode, your file's length and structure, and language. Upload your book to get a quote or a free preview.

Frequently Asked Questions

First things first: AI models have become really good at handling text, so your translation should be really good too! Authors are reporting massive time savings using our service, with some publishing their translations almost immediately.

For publication, we still recommend doing a proofreading of the translation to ensure it's error-free and the AI didn't get confused anywhere. Depending on the degree of control you want over the output, this can go from a light spot-checking to a deeper style review.

Author mode will give you the best result in terms of fluency and consistency across the book. If you want maximum control over the style, you can add custom instructions and/or give a reference material to get inspiration from, and the AI will follow it.

Working with thousands of users, we've built a custom pipeline that will automatically split your book, translate and analyze it, do quality and fluency control, retry and reflect... All of this to get you the best possible result. We don't just send your text to ChatGPT with a cute prompt!

To power this system, we currently use a blend of Google Gemini Pro 2.5, OpenAI GPT-5, and DeepSeek V3. These are some of the current very best AIs in the world, each with their particular flavor and style.

We're also always evaluating new models to find the best matches for your language pair and book style - it's a fast moving landscape, and we're passionate about this topic!

The translation time depends on your document length. In the first two translation modes most books are translated in less than 10 minutes, sometimes up to 20 minutes. Author Mode analyzes your book before translating it step by step, which can take from 3 to 12 hours.

Unless your file is a PDF, the answer is a simple yes!

You'll get a translated file in the same format as the one you uploaded, and unless specified otherwise all formatting will be preserved. This includes images, tables, links and other typographic elements, as well as the full layout.

PDFs need to have their text extracted, so the final layout will change. We use a state-of-the-art advanced PDF analyzer that is at the top of current benchmarks, so we can still handle complex files while preserving semantic information.

If for some other reason your file format is complex and the layout will change, we will always warn you beforehand. Otherwise you'll get a beautiful book in the language of your choice in just a few minutes.

The quick answer: upload your book to get an exact quote!

The price depends on the length of your book, the file format, the language and the structure of your file. You should upload your book to get a quote (uploaded files are automatically deleted within 24 hours if you don't purchase a translation).

To give you a general ballpark however, Author Mode often costs from 50€ to 300€, Pro Mode from 15€ to 50€, and Standard Mode from 5€ to 20€.

Since our AI takes uses resources to produce your translation, we can't guarantee refunds for reasons other than technical difficulties (we do guarantee you'll have a working translated file, of course). We recommend doing a free preview if you're unsure about the result.

If there's an issue with your file or if for some reason you`re not satisfied with your translation feel free to reach out and we'll see if we can improve things together - we do want you to be happy with your result.

We are always adding more supported formats. EPUB and ebooks work especially well, as well as DOCX, HTML, IDML or TXT. PDF files are notoriously difficult to handle: we recommend translating the original file that was used to create the PDF instead if you can, otherwise we do have a great PDF analyzer and we provide ample previews to help you get a sense of what the result will look like.

The full list of currently supported formats is: AZW3, DOC, DOCX, EPUB, FB2, FDX, HTM, HTML, HTMLZ, IDML, MOBI, ODT, PAGES, PDF, PPTX, PRC, RTF, TXT

We're regularly improving this tool - if you need a specific file extension supported, let us know!

Because PDFs are a rigid format, we need to extract the text from your file, translate it, and then rebuild it. This process changes the layout: instead of replacing the text like in other formats, we have to build the file from scratch again. We have two analyzers - use the default one if the file is extremely simple (just the main text on full page, no footnotes or table or multiple columns), otherwise the advanced analyzer will give better results.

If you have access to it, we recommend using the file that was used to create the PDF instead - like a .docx or .idml file. This will preserve the layout much better. Do not try to convert your PDF file to another format though, we did a lot of research on what works best using our own PDF analyzer gives the best results (regular converters can turn PDFs into DOCXs that look good at first sight but are a complete mess internally, and are really hard to translate correctly).

We also support PDF made of scanned images: we use state-of-the-art OCR technology (following the latest benchmarks recommendations) to detect the text structure and extract the content from the images. It can handle tables and complex layout or preserve illustrations, though this will never be as good as using a native format.

We support InDesign .idml files perfectly, with the layout preserved. If your picture is a scanned PDF we can extract the text to translate it - the layout will change and the text won't be replaced in place (if there is a drawing with labels for example, either the system will consider it an illustration and include it as a picture or the text will be extracted and replace the image, but not both).

If there's an image format you'd like to use that we don't already support just reach out to let us know - we'll see if we can add it!

Your data is only used to provide you with this service or reach out to you regarding your translation.

Your email is only used to send you your translation or ask for feedback.

If you upload a file without ordering a translation, it will be deleted automatically from our server after 24h. All other uploaded files and translations are automatically deleted after a month (previews, after a week). You can ask for them to be deleted at any moment before.

We keep the metadata (like file name, topic, size...) for longer, to help us understand how the service is used over time. You can ask for deletion of this at any time if you'd like.

To run our chosen AI models we route parts of your file to providers that run the actual model for us; we only use providers that do not log the content of what's shared with them and do not train any AI model with it.

You can check the privacy policy for the full detail on all of this.

With our tool you can upload a book in any format and translate it with a cutting-edge AI that understands nuance and preserves formatting, giving you a beautiful and professional-looking result in a just few minutes.

We're proud to use an advanced AI model that supports dozens of languages and allows us to get a fluent result. You can tweak how we use the AI by switching translation modes. The system can handle files large and small, and most common file formats are supported (DOCX, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, AZW3, HTML, TXT...)

It doesn't require creating an account: the app is very simple to use and notifies you when it's done. Just upload a file and click translate!

Pricing

Upload your book to get an instant exact quote

Standard Mode Pro Mode Author Mode
Per 1M tokens in our custom pipeline
(document structure is included in the token count)
7.32 € 24.14 € 118.28 €
Minimum price 1.90 € 4.20 € 17.10 €

* Some languages (Korean, Japanese...) and formats (like .idml) are more complex and incur a surcharge.

** Price goes down as the file grow bigger - more tokens will be priced cheaper.

An Easy To Use Book Translator

Translate your book in three simple steps

1

Upload Your Book

Drag and drop your book file into our uploader. Our system will analyze it automatically.

2

Select Languages

Choose the source language of your book and the target language for translation. Confirm and pay.

3

Download Translated Book

Our AI quickly translates your book and sends you an email with a link when it's done. You can download your new book!