Getting Started with Translation
This guide walks you through translating your first document from start to finish — exactly what to click, what to select, and what happens at each step. The whole flow is shown in the looping demo below; the steps beneath it break it down.
- A Judicio account with an active subscription or free trial
- At least one document in your File Library (PDF or DOCX) — see Uploading Files
- Enough credits for the pages you'll translate — your balance is shown in the top bar. See Credits Explained.
Open Translation
Click Translation in the left sidebar. You land on the Translation home: a prompt that reads "What would you like to translate today?", a short How it works summary (select files → pick a language → keep formatting), and your recent translations.
Unlike the other features, Translation has no composer to type into — you start simply by selecting a file.
Select a file and choose the language
Open the Files panel (the Files button in the top bar) and tick the document you want to translate — one file, or several for batch translation. The home flips to the Document translation setup card.
At the top, open Choose target language and pick the language to translate into — Judicio supports 100+ languages, including Hindi, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, and Korean. Each selected file shows its name, a blue badge with its auto-detected source language, and its page count.
Judicio detects the source language for you — you only choose the target.
Choose all pages or a custom range
Under Translate pages, each file defaults to All pages. To translate only part of a long document, select Custom range and set the start and end pages with the slider or the two number boxes — the summary line confirms "Pages 1–9 of 9 · 9 pages."
When everything looks right, click Translate to English (the footer button names your chosen language) in the sticky footer. It also shows how many documents and pages you're about to translate.
Check the page count before you start
Translation is billed per page, and you always see the count before you commit — the sticky footer shows how many documents and pages the job covers, right next to the Translate to English button (it is labelled with your chosen target language). There's no separate confirmation dialog: clicking the button starts the translation straight away, and credits are consumed as the pages are translated.
Judicio translates every page
The view switches to Jobs, where a live progress bar shows the translation running — "Translating your document… preserving layout, tables, and clause numbering," with the current page out of the total.
You can navigate away while it runs; Judicio notifies you when it's done and the run keeps its place in your history.
Review the translation side by side
When translation finishes you land on the review view. Use View source to put the original beside the translation, aligned page by page, and scroll both together. Move through the document with the centered Page controls, and use Search to jump to any phrase.
Pay particular attention to:
- legal terms and defined terms,
- proper nouns and party names,
- numbers, dates, and monetary amounts, and
- clause numbering and cross-references.
Machine translation can occasionally slip on ambiguous wording or a poor scan. The source sits right next to the translation so a glance confirms each clause. See Reviewing Translations.
Download your translated document
Click Export and choose a format:
- Word (DOCX) — an editable document you can modify further,
- PDF — a formatted PDF preserving the layout.
The formatting, tables, and clause numbering carry across to the download. See Downloading Results.
Next steps
- Translating Documents — batch processing, language options, and progress tracking.
- Reviewing Translations — a deep dive into the side-by-side review interface.
- Downloading Results — explore all export options in detail.