--- title: "Translate, edit and proofread a PDF with AI" description: "Translate a PDF into another language as a new copy, describe edits for AI to propose, and proofread spelling and grammar. You approve every change." url: https://help.pdfbetter.com/ai/translate-edit-proofread-ai/ collection: "AI with citations" section: "Create & change" updated: 2026-10-18 publisher: "PDFBetter (AI Generated Inc.)" --- # Translate, edit and proofread a PDF with AI > In the AI assistant, **Translate** makes a new translated copy (1 credit per page), **Edit** turns an instruction into edits you accept one by one (2 credits), and **Proofread** lists issues to fix (1 credit per page). Nothing changes until you apply it. - Counts toward: AI credits ## Translate 1. **Open the Translate tab**: In the document's AI assistant, click **Translate**. 2. **Choose the language**: Pick one from **Translate into**. More than 30 languages are listed, including Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi and Japanese. 3. **Choose pages**: Leave **Pages** blank for all pages, or type a range like `1-3, 5`. 4. **Translate**: Click **Translate**. When it's done, click **Open “…”** to open the new copy, or **Download as text**. Your original stays untouched. Layout, images and tables aren't reproduced: you get the text, in order, in a new PDF. Each request covers up to 10 pages on Free, 50 on Pro and 100 on Business; translate longer documents in parts. Pages that fail say **not charged** so you can run them again. ## Edit with AI 1. **Describe the change**: In the **Edit** tab, type it in **What should change?**, for example "Change the tenant name to Jordan Lee and add a note on page 2 to confirm the deposit." 2. **Propose edits**: Click **Propose edits**. You get a list: **Replace text**, **Add text**, **Add note** or **Fill “field”**. 3. **Pick and apply**: Untick anything you don't want, then click **Apply … selected**, or **Discard**. Undo with `Ctrl`/`⌘` + `Z`. > **Replaced text is covered, not removed:** AI edits draw the new text over the original and cover the old text with white. The underlying text stays in the file until you flatten or redact it. To remove sensitive text, [redact it](https://help.pdfbetter.com/editing/redact-pdf-permanently/). ## Proofread Open **Proofread** (or **More** → **Check spelling** in the editor toolbar) and click **Proofread**. Issues are labeled **Spelling**, **Grammar** or **Style**; click **Accept** or **Dismiss** on each, or **Accept all … located fixes**. Suggestions whose text can't be found on the page are discarded or marked to fix by hand. Proofreading follows the same per-request page cap as translation. ### Can it edit a scanned PDF? Not until the page has a text layer. Run OCR from the **Scan** tab first; the AI then reports pages it still can't read. ### Why does my translation look plain? Translation keeps the text and its order, not the design. For a styled document, paste the translation into a template or the original layout. ## Related articles - [Create a document with AI](https://help.pdfbetter.com/ai/create-document-with-ai.md): Click Create with AI in the sidebar, pick what you're making, describe it and click Create draft. You get an editable, fillable PDF in the editor for 5 credits. - [Open the AI assistant and what each tab does](https://help.pdfbetter.com/ai/ai-assistant-overview.md): In the editor, click the yellow ✨ AI assistant button in the top bar (or More (⋯) → AI assistant). From the dashboard, use the ✨ AI assistant menu and pick a document. The panel has nine tabs, from Ask to Scan. - [How accurate AI answers are, and how to check them](https://help.pdfbetter.com/ai/ai-privacy-accuracy.md): AI answers can be wrong or miss nuance, so every result links to the pages it came from and chat quotes are checked word for word against the page. Check numbers, dates and obligations against the cited page before you rely on them. - [Redact a PDF permanently](https://help.pdfbetter.com/editing/redact-pdf-permanently.md): Choose Redact (in the Cover group), drag over everything to remove, then click Apply redactions and confirm. Text, images and drawings under each mark are removed from the file, not just covered, and the affected pages become images. - [Edit the existing text in a PDF](https://help.pdfbetter.com/editing/edit-existing-pdf-text.md): Switch the editor from Fill out to Edit PDF (or press E), click a line of the document's text and type. The new text is drawn over a cover patch in the closest standard font; the old characters stay in the file unless you redact them. --- Source: https://help.pdfbetter.com/ai/translate-edit-proofread-ai/ · PDFBetter Help Center · Last checked against the product 2026-10-18. Questions: support@pdfbetter.com