PDFMathTranslate: Scientific Document Translation Preserving Layouts

TL;DR

PDFMathTranslate is an open-source tool that translates scientific documents while maintaining their original layouts, significantly improving the accessibility and dissemination of scientific knowledge across language barriers.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach combining large language models and layout detection to accurately translate scientific documents with preserved formatting.

Findings

Achieved high translation precision and layout preservation.

Open-sourced with over 222k downloads.

Enhances accessibility of scientific literature across languages.

Abstract

Language barriers in scientific documents hinder the diffusion and development of science and technologies. However, prior efforts in translating such documents largely overlooked the information in layouts. To bridge the gap, we introduce PDFMathTranslate, the world's first open-source software for translating scientific documents while preserving layouts. Leveraging the most recent advances in large language models and precise layout detection, we contribute to the community with key improvements in precision, flexibility, and efficiency. The work has been open-sourced at https://github.com/byaidu/pdfmathtranslate with more than 222k downloads.