How to Translate PDF using PDF.co and Zapier

We prepared this step-by-step tutorial with screenshots to teach you how to translate a PDF using PDF.co and Zapier. This is to translate your PDF into your desired language.

Quick Navigation:

1. Start by clicking on Make a Zap! at the upper-left corner of your Zapier dashboard
2. We will now set up our Trigger. Search and select Google drive as the App event. 
3. As for our Trigger Event go ahead and choose New File in Folder.
4. Select or connect your Google Drive account which you will be using with Zapier
5. Select My Google Drive as the drive to be used and select the specific folder where the pdf files are located.
6. We will then Test the trigger to see if there are any errors or none.
7. Search and select PDF.co as our App event
8. Select PDF Translator as our Action event.
9. Select or connect your PDF.co account which you will be using with Zapier.
10. Under Set up Action set Link to source PDF to Web Content Link. Set Source Language into the language of your source PDF. Set Target Language into the language you want your PDF to be translated to. Set the Name of your translated file. Lastly, put the Pages that you want to be translated.
11. Click on Test & Review to see if there are any errors or none.
12. Once the test returns as successful. You can use the link to view and download the output PDF.

Step by step guide:

We will use this sample PDF to translate it into another language.

After translation, the output looks like this.

STEP 1 – Start by clicking on Make a Zap! at the upper-left corner of your Zapier dashboard

STEP 2 – We will now set up our Trigger. Search and select Google drive as the App event. 

STEP 3 – As for our Trigger Event go ahead and choose New File in Folder. In this case, whenever there’s a new file added to your specific folder, it will trigger this zap.

NOTE: If you are not a Google Drive user, you can use a different cloud storage service such as Dropbox, OneDrive, etc., and look for a similar Trigger Event.

STEP 4 – Select or connect your Google Drive account which you will be using with Zapier

STEP 5 – Select My Google Drive as the drive to be used and select the specific folder where the pdf files are located. In my case, I put the pdf file in the Tutorial folder.

STEP 6 – We will then Test the trigger to see if there are any errors or none.

So we’re done setting up the Trigger. We will now set up the Action.

STEP 7 – Search and select PDF.co as our App event

STEP 8 –Select PDF Translator as our Action event. PDF Translator can translate the text of your PDF into another language.

STEP 9 – Select or connect your PDF.co account which you will be using with Zapier. You can get your API key by clicking here.

STEP 10 – Under Set up Action set Link to source PDF to Web Content Link. Set Source Language into the language of your source PDF. Set Target Language into the language you want your PDF to be translated to. Set the Name of your translated file. Lastly, put the Pages that you want to be translated. For our example below I used 0- which will translate all pages.

STEP 11 – We will now Test the action. Click on Test & Review to see if there are any errors or none.

STEP 12 – Once the test returns as successful. You can use the link to view and download the output PDF. Don’t forget to give a name to your zap and turn it on.