Translate a PDF to French

French translation that respects the page

French administrative life runs on documents — dossiers for housing, CAF paperwork, employer attestations, insurance letters — and the receiving side routinely compares the translation against the original. PDFlee's approach fits that reality: every translated page is rebuilt on a copy of the original page, so the layout, images and stamps stay put and only the text changes language.

French translations of English text typically grow by 15–20% — 'requirements' becomes 'exigences requises', short verbs become reflexive constructions — so each translated block is re-flowed inside its original bounding box, stepping the font size down when the French needs the room. Headings stay headings, columns stay aligned.

The full French character set — é, è, ê, ë, à, ù, ç, œ — is rendered from the embedded Noto Sans font, so the output displays correctly everywhere, including on systems with no French keyboard or fonts.

A note on French typography

Carefully typeset French inserts a thin space before double punctuation marks ( ! ? : ; ) and uses « guillemets » for quotations. Machine translation output follows the translation engine's conventions, which are correct for general use; PDFlee does not re-typeset punctuation spacing beyond what the engine produces. For a document going to print with strict French typographic requirements, plan a human proofreading pass — for everyday documents the output reads naturally.

Tiers and pricing for French

French is available on both tiers: standard at 3 credits per unit, and premium at 5 credits per unit via DeepL, whose French output is consistently rated among the best available. A unit covers up to 10 pages or 20,000 characters.

Pricing is in credits and shown before anything runs: 3 credits per unit on the standard tier, 5 on premium, where a unit is up to 10 pages or 20,000 characters — whichever is larger. Credits are only deducted when the translation succeeds; failures are refunded automatically. New accounts start with 3 free credits, enough to translate a typical document end to end.

Privacy: what happens to your document

Translation is the one PDFlee tool that runs on our server: your document is uploaded over HTTPS for processing and deleted the moment the job finishes, success or failure. Every other PDFlee tool (merge, split, compress and the rest) runs entirely in your browser.