# Translate PDFs into multiple languages with Google Translate: n8n workflow

> Started by someone submitting a form, and works across Gmail and n8n data table. 20 steps, 2 branches: a working afternoon to understand properly.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/workflow/translate-pdfs-into-multiple-languages-with-google-translate (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Translate PDFs into multiple languages with Google Translate

Started by someone submitting a form, and works across Gmail and n8n data table. 20 steps, 2 branches: a working afternoon to understand properly.

Medium

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**20 steps** Medium: a working afternoon

**2** Branches: places the flow splits

**0** Loops or waits

**2** Services it connects to

## The flow

Starts it 1 Logic 11 Service 8

The steps in the order they run, from what starts it.

- 1 **Document Translation Request (Form Trigger)** Form trigger *Starts it*
- 2 **Process Form Data** Code *Logic*
- 3 **Extract Text from PDF** Extract From File *Service*
- 4 **Convert to HTML** Code *Logic*
- 5 **Translate to Language 1** Google Translate *Service*
- 6 **Has 2nd Language?** If *Logic*
- 7 **Prepare HTML 1** Code *Logic*
- 8 **Translate to Language 2** Google Translate *Service*
- 9 **Convert HTML to PDF 1** Http Request *Service*
- 10 **Prepare HTML 2** Code *Logic*
- 11 **Finalize PDF 1** Code *Logic*
- 12 **Convert HTML to PDF 2** Http Request *Service*
- 13 **Merge Documents** Merge *Logic*
- 14 **Finalize PDF 2** Code *Logic*
- 15 **Prepare Email** Code *Logic*
- 16 **Cost – Build record** Code *Logic*
- 17 **Data Table** Data Table *Service*
- 18 **Send Two Attachments?** If *Logic*
- 19 **Send Email (2 PDFs)** Gmail *Service*
- 20 **Send Email(1 PDF)** Gmail *Service*

## How it's built

- **Starts on:** Someone submitting a form
- **Steps:** 20, with 2 branches
- **Size:** Medium: a working afternoon
- **Connects to:** Gmail, n8n data table
- **Model:** None. This is plumbing, not judgement

## Questions

What does it need to run?

An n8n account, plus your own Gmail account. You connect your own accounts after importing it; none are included.

What starts it?

It starts on someone submitting a form.

Does it use AI?

No. Every step is fixed logic or a call to a service, so it does the same thing every time.

How long does it take to set up?

Plan an afternoon. 20 steps is enough that you should read each one before running it.

How do I import it?

Copy the workflow, open a new workflow in n8n and paste. The steps appear on the canvas, ready for your own accounts.

**Before you run it**

Nothing here has been tested by us. It is somebody's working automation, read and described from its own steps. Treat the connections it wants as a list of accounts it will touch, and read the 20 steps before you point it at anything that matters.

## Run it in n8n

- **Create your n8n account** Free to start. n8n is where the workflow runs. [Create an n8n account ↗](https://millionrounds.com/n8n)
- **Download the workflow** Free with a Millionrounds account. [Download free](https://millionrounds.com/login?next=%2Fapp%2Fworkflow%2Ftranslate-pdfs-into-multiple-languages-with-google-translate)
- **Paste it into n8n** Open a new workflow in n8n and paste. Then connect your own accounts.

Stored with the author's traces removed: canvas notes, instance identifiers, saved credential names and any live document they had left behind.

## Connects to

Each opens the other workflows that use it.

[Gmail](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?service=Gmail#library)[n8n data table](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?service=n8n+data+table#library)

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