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.

Screenshot of the source file
Screenshot of the Source file

After translation, the output looks like this.

Screenshot of the translated file
Screenshot of the translated file

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. 

Choosing google drive as the trigger app

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.

Choosing new file in folder as the trigger event

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

Choosing a google drive account to use

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.

Choosing the drive to be used and the folder where the pdf's are located

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

Testing the trigger to check for errors

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

Choosing PDF.co as the action app

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

Choosing PDF Translator as the action event

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.

Choosing a PDF.co account to use Connecting PDF.co account to zapier

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.

Adding the link to the source file, choosing the source language, choosing the target language, setting the name, and choosing pages to translate

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

Testing the action

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.

Testing successful