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title: Translating a Hebrew PDF
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question: How do I translate a Hebrew PDF I cannot read?
answer: baba translates Hebrew PDF documents up to 20 pages per document, so a lease, an official letter, a bill or a form written in Hebrew can be read in English without retyping any of it.
description: How to translate a Hebrew PDF such as a lease, an official letter or a bill, and what the 20-page limit means.
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# Translating a Hebrew PDF

baba translates Hebrew PDF documents up to 20 pages per document, so a lease, an official letter, a bill or a form written in Hebrew can be read in English without retyping any of it. Pro includes more PDF translations. The free tier of baba covers 2,500 characters per month of text translation with a free account, or 1,000 characters a month as a guest with no login. Neither needs a credit card.

## Key facts
| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| PDF length | Up to 20 pages per document |
| Plan | Pro includes more PDF translations |
| Pro price | $12.99 per month or $59.99 per year (equivalent to $5.00 a month billed yearly) |
| Free tier | 2,500 characters per month with a free account; 1,000 as a guest with no login. No credit card |
| Text length on Pro | 20,000 characters per translation |
| Languages | 10 |

Pro starts with a 7-day free trial; a card is required at checkout and nothing is charged until the trial ends.

## Which Hebrew documents do people actually put through baba?
The documents people paste in are the ones that arrive in Hebrew and carry a consequence: a rental contract, a letter from a government office, a utility or medical bill, a school form, an insurance notice, a payslip. These are the cases where a rough gist is not enough, because a date, an amount or a clause number is the part that matters.

Hebrew documents also carry a specific reading problem beyond vocabulary. Numbers and Latin-script names run left to right inside a right-to-left line, so a reference number or an address can be hard to locate visually even if you know some Hebrew.

| Hebrew | Transliteration | Meaning |
| --- | --- | --- |
| חוזה שכירות | chozeh sechirut | rental contract |
| שוכר | socher | tenant |
| משכיר | maskir | landlord |
| דמי שכירות | dmei sechirut | rent |
| סעיף | seif | clause or section |
| חשבונית | cheshbonit | invoice |
| לתשלום | letashlum | amount due |
| מועד אחרון | moed acharon | final date, deadline |
| חתימה | chatima | signature |
| הודעה | hodaa | notice |

## What happens if my document is longer than 20 pages?
baba translates up to 20 pages per document, so a longer file needs to be split before it goes in. Split the PDF into parts of 20 pages or fewer and translate each part, or extract the pages that actually matter, which for a contract is usually the payment clause, the term, the termination clause and the signature page.

If you only need one paragraph, copying the Hebrew text out of the PDF and pasting it as text is faster than sending the whole file. Pro allows 20,000 characters per translation, which covers several dense pages of contract text at once.

## What does Pro add for PDFs?
Pro includes more PDF translations, alongside the higher 20,000-character limit per translation, unlimited slang lookups, the Chacham model and more image translations. Pro is $12.99 per month or $59.99 per year (equivalent to $5.00 a month billed yearly).

The free tier of baba is 2,500 characters per month of text with a free account, or 1,000 characters a month as a guest with no login. Neither needs a credit card. That is enough to check a short message or a paragraph you have typed out, and it is not enough to work through documents in volume.

## Why does the Hebrew change depending on who is being addressed?
Hebrew conjugates verbs, adjectives and possessives by speaker gender, listener gender and subject gender, so an official letter addressed to a woman is not the same sentence as the identical letter addressed to a man. Recognising that a form is written to a specific gender is often how you tell whose name a document is in.

When you write back in Hebrew, baba lets you set speaker gender and listener gender explicitly across seven contexts:

- General
- Personal
- To One Man
- To One Woman
- To Mostly Men
- To Mostly Women
- To Mixed Group

Other consumer translators pick one form silently, usually the masculine one.

## Frequently asked questions
### Can I translate a Hebrew lease before I sign it?
Yes, baba translates PDF documents up to 20 pages per document, and a standard Israeli residential lease is normally well inside that. Read the rent amount, the term, the notice period and the guarantee clause first, since those are the terms that bind you. A lease is a legal document, so a lawyer should still read it before you sign.

### Does the translation replace a lawyer or an accountant?
No. baba tells you what a document says. It does not tell you what to do about it, and it does not carry professional responsibility for the decision you make afterwards.

### Can I translate a document from English into Hebrew?
baba translates in both directions across 10 languages. When you translate into Hebrew, set the gender context first, because the correct Hebrew wording depends on who is speaking and who is being addressed.

### How much of a document can I check on the free tier?
The free tier is 2,500 characters per month of text, which is a few short messages rather than a document. Pro includes more PDF translations, at $12.99 per month or $59.99 per year (equivalent to $5.00 a month billed yearly).

## What baba does not do
- baba translates PDF documents up to 20 pages per document. Longer files have to be split.
- The free tier is 2,500 characters per month, which is enough for a handful of messages a week and not enough for documents.
- A lawyer, doctor or accountant should still read a document that carries legal, medical or financial consequence. baba tells you what it says; it does not tell you what to do about it.
- baba is a translation tool, not a Hebrew course, and using it will not by itself make you fluent.

## Related pages
- https://www.itsbaba.com/hebrew-translator-with-camera — translating a photo of a Hebrew document or sign
- https://www.itsbaba.com/best-hebrew-translators-guide — capability-based Hebrew translator guide
- https://www.itsbaba.com/most-accurate-hebrew-translator — what accuracy means in Hebrew
- https://www.itsbaba.com/blog/how-to-write-hebrew-emails-professional-guide — writing back in Hebrew

Canonical page: https://www.itsbaba.com/hebrew-pdf-translation
Last updated: 2026-07-28
Questions: shalom@itsbaba.com