Glotbee or Google Translate for your document?
Google Translate is fast and good for getting the gist. A contract, a certificate or a medical report needs more than a first draft: the same terms on every page, a second reading, and numbers that match the original.
PDF, scanned PDF, Word and more. You see the price before you pay.
Side by side.
| Glotbee | Google Translate | |
|---|---|---|
| A glossary of names and terms | Made for each document before translating starts, and used on every page | Not offered |
| A brief written for this document | Subject, people, terms and tone worked out first, then a brief for this document | Not offered |
| A second reading of every paragraph | An independent review, then proofreading | Not offered |
| A final consistency pass | A final pass over all of it, with a style sheet | Not offered |
| Numbers, dates and names checked | Checked against the original automatically | Not offered |
| A record of what was checked | A translation audit: every number, date, code and name, and where the translation has it | Not offered |
| The original layout kept | The same pages back, with scanned pages and text in pictures translated too | Often broken. PDFs come back with formatting lost and text moved out of place; tables and columns fall apart. Text in pictures stays untranslated |
| Scanned pages | Straightened, every line read twice, and the translation set where each line was; stamps and signatures noted | Not translated. Scanned pages come back as they were |
| Personal data hidden before translating | ID numbers, accounts and contacts can be masked | Not offered |
| Corrections with the layout kept | Side by side, one correction round included | Edit the file yourself |
| Made for | Documents you file, sign, send or publish, and whole books | Understanding a text quickly |
From what each service offers publicly to everyone, as of October 2026. DeepL is a trademark of DeepL SE and Google Translate a trademark of Google LLC; Glotbee is not connected with either.
When Google Translate is enough.
To understand an email, a web page or a sign in another language, Google Translate is quick and enough. Paste the text or point your phone at it, and you have the gist.
When a document needs more.
If you will sign it, file it, send it to an office or publish it, a first draft is where the work starts.
- The same terms on every page.
- The whole document is read first, and every name and term is fixed to one translation.
- A second reading.
- An independent review of every paragraph, then proofreading, then a final pass over all of it.
- Numbers that match the original.
- Every number, date and name is checked against the original, with a translation audit you can pass on.
- The same pages back.
- Logos, tables, scans and text in pictures, translated in place.
Questions
When is Google Translate enough?
To understand an email, a web page or a sign in another language, Google Translate is quick and enough. Paste the text or point your phone at it, and you have the gist.
When should I use Glotbee?
For a document you will sign, file, send to an office or publish: a contract, a court document, a medical report, a certificate, a scan or a book. It is read in full first, reviewed a second time, checked against the original for numbers, dates and names, and returned on its own pages.
Is the translation certified?
No. A Glotbee translation is careful: it is reviewed, proofread, and checked against the original for numbers, dates and names. Courts, embassies and registries usually ask for a certified translation, though, which means a sworn translator’s stamp and signature. Glotbee Personal does not certify. You can download the translation as Word, so a sworn translator can review it, and sworn translators use Glotbee Professional to certify their work.
Why is there no free sample?
Before you pay, you see the exact price and the first page of your original, so you know what you are paying for. The full process runs on the whole document, from the first read to the final checks, so there is no single-page version of it to give away.
Also translated here
Have a document waiting?
Upload it, see the price, and decide.
Translator? See Glotbee Professional