PDFMathTranslate: Scientific Document Translation Preserving Layouts
This addresses the issue of limited accessibility to scientific knowledge for non-native speakers by providing a tool that maintains document layouts, though it is incremental as it builds on existing language models and layout detection methods.
The authors tackled the problem of language barriers in scientific documents by introducing PDFMathTranslate, the first open-source software that translates scientific documents while preserving layouts, resulting in over 222k downloads.
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.