@Manorgw: The most frustrating part of reading English papers usually isn't understanding the original text — it's that the layout falls apart after translation. BabelDOC was built specifically for PDF translation, and it's already racked up 9,400+ stars on GitHub. ① Generates a bilingual Chinese-English version directly from the whole PDF ② Supports side-by-side and interleaved original/translation layouts, etc.
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An introduction to BabelDOC, an open-source library built specifically for translating PDF papers. It generates side-by-side Chinese-English bilingual versions while preserving the layout of formulas, tables, images, and captions. It also supports scanned PDFs and segmented translation of long documents. GitHub stars have surpassed 9,400.
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