PixLate translates PDFs, scans, and illustrated pages while preserving their artwork and layout. It combines AI translation with side-by-side review, correction tools, background processing, and PDF export. Projects stay on your device with pay-as-you-go credits.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I’m Krishna, the maker behind PixLate.
The idea started with a simple bedtime routine. I wanted to read illustrated children’s stories to my kid in Nepali -- the language I grew up speaking. Finding physical books was tough, and running digital pages through standard translators completely destroyed the layouts, covered the artwork, and made them unreadable.
That frustration turned into PixLate: a dedicated workspace for translating content where the visual layout matters just as much as the words -- from comics and children's books to scanned diagrams and technical manuals.
Most AI translation tools promise "one-click magic," but anyone who has used them knows the reality: AI still misinterprets character names, drops tiny labels, or misaligns text boxes. That’s why review and human-in-the-loop editing are the core of PixLate:
* Keeps Layouts Intact: Translate across 100+ languages without stripping away original formatting, typography, or artwork.
* Dual Engines: Visual AI for scanned artwork/comics, plus Text Layer mode for selectable vector PDFs.
* Side-by-Side Review: Easily compare against the original page, adjust styles, and fix phrasing before exporting a clean, usable file.
* Local-First & Private: Your files stay stored on your device; cloud processing is used strictly for the AI generation.
* Pay-as-You-Go: No recurring monthly subscriptions. Free credits are included at sign-up so you can test it immediately.
I built this to solve a personal pain point, so your feedback directly shapes where we take the tool next. What kinds of visual documents or media have you struggled to translate in the past? Excited to answer questions and hear your thoughts! 🚀
keeping the artwork while translating is the hard part 👀 what happens when the german is 30% longer than the english and doesn't fit the speech bubble anymore? shrink the font or reflow lol
About PixLate on Product Hunt
“Translate documents. Preserve artwork and layout.”
PixLate launched on Product Hunt on October 14th, 2026 and earned 62 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #42 on the daily leaderboard. PixLate translates PDFs, scans, and illustrated pages while preserving their artwork and layout. It combines AI translation with side-by-side review, correction tools, background processing, and PDF export. Projects stay on your device with pay-as-you-go credits.
PixLate was featured in Productivity (663.1k followers), Languages (14.5k followers), Artificial Intelligence (481.1k followers) and Google Cloud Run (4 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 303.3k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted PixLate?
PixLate was hunted by Krishna Thapa. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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