This is one of the most common situations we see: a business needs a brochure translated urgently, but the original InDesign files are nowhere to be found. Don’t worry — you’re not stuck.
Professional agencies can still produce perfect multilingual brochures from a PDF, but the workflow is a little different.
How we do it
- Extract the text from the PDF
- Translate the content using CAT tools
- Rebuild the layout page-by-page
- Match fonts, spacing, colours, and alignment
- Recreate infographics if needed
- Deliver print-ready files
If the PDF is scanned, we use OCR first — but it’s still manageable.
What influences cost
- PDF quality (scanned vs digital)
- How complex the layout is
- How many images contain text
- Exact matching vs layout simplification
- Human-only vs AI-assisted translation
- Number of languages
If you’re on a tight budget, we can produce a clean bilingual Word version instead of full DTP.
👉 Need your PDF brochure recreated and translated? Get your quote here:
https://www.lingvohouse.com/quick-quote/
