u/ZestycloseType475

Dear translators, I have a question about your practice — I'd be very grateful for any answers!

1. How often do you encounter complex PDF files (with complex structure, tables, layout) in your work? What do you usually do in such cases — translate manually, convert them, use some kind of tools?
2. Imagine a service where you send in such a PDF, and specialists return it translated into the target language with the structure and layout fully preserved. The text itself is translated using AI models, the turnaround time is from 10 minutes, and the cost is very low compared to market rates. How useful would such a tool be for you? Would it help you speed up your work significantly? Here's the catch: you get the translation back as a PDF too, without export to Word and without integration into a CAT tool — how useful would such a tool be to you in that case? Or is there not much point in it without the ability to work in your usual CAT tool?

I'd appreciate an honest answer, even a short one.

p.s. My question is specifically about those who get sent a file not in an editable format, but exactly in PDF, which they then have to translate and reassemble themselves into the same layout that resembles the original.

p.s.2: This is about truly amazingly accurate preservation of the layout structure during translation. This means you get almost 100% of the original in appearance, but in a different language. This is all done automatically, with the help of specialists, for a small fee, and very quickly.