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PixLate

Launching today

Translate documents. Preserve artwork and layout.

39 followers

Translate documents. Preserve artwork and layout.

39 followers

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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.

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Launch tags:Productivity•Languages•Artificial Intelligence

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PixLate

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Google Cloud Run is used to host PixLate’s containerized FastAPI backend, which coordinates Gemini-powered translation, and image processing, alongside authentication and credit billing. A separate Cloud Run worker handles background translations through Cloud Tasks allowing users to submit documents for background processing. Cloud SQL stores account and job state, while Cloud Storage holds temporary processing files. Cloud Run lets us operate PixLate without maintaining dedicated servers. We can scale up as demand grows and scale down to zero during quiet periods.

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20h ago

PixLate

Maker

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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! 🚀

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22h ago

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

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13h ago

PixLate

Maker

@emma_lagast Definitely! Longer translations can make speech bubbles tricky. The editors lets you reduce the font size or edit the translation to use shorter wording while keeping the meaning.

There’s a tradeoff between fitting the bubble and keeping the text readable. That’s why comparison and manual correction are part of the workflow, especially on crowded pages. It's always those last few details that get you 😅

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12h ago