We watched researchers lose weeks reformatting translated papers. We saw law firms pay thousands to manually fix broken contracts. We knew there had to be a better way.
Tatev spent years in AI research, publishing papers that needed translation for international journals. Every tool she tried destroyed her carefully formatted tables, equations, and figures. Vahe, building enterprise systems, watched clients spend more time fixing translated documents than it took to translate them. The same problem, seen from two different angles.
Translation tools treat PDFs as blobs of text. But a PDF is a structured document with spatial relationships, visual hierarchy, and semantic meaning. The breakthrough was treating translation as a document understanding problem, not just a language problem. That insight became the foundation of Babel’s 13-stage processing pipeline.
Babel parses every character position, analyzes page structure, detects tables and formulas, extracts styles, translates with GPT-4o using full document context, then typesets the result to match the original geometry. The output is a production-ready PDF that looks exactly like the original — just in a different language.
We don’t just ship features. We obsess over the details that make translations invisible.
Every table, every chart, every margin matters. We treat document formatting as a first-class citizen, not an afterthought.
Every feature is backed by real user needs and rigorous engineering methodology. We measure twice, cut once.
AES-256 encryption, SOC 2 compliance, automatic deletion. Your documents are never used for training. Ever.
We use Babel ourselves every day. Every pain point we fix is one we’ve felt firsthand. That’s the advantage of a founder-led product.
Translation quality, format fidelity, processing speed—we improve all three with every release. The pipeline never stops evolving.
Upload. Pick a language. Download. Three steps. No training required. If it needs a manual, we haven’t finished building it.
A global company serving teams worldwide, built from Armenia with love.
Headquarters & Engineering. Where the core translation engine, 13-stage pipeline, and enterprise API are built and maintained.
EU Operations & Data Residency. GDPR compliance, serving legal, financial, and healthcare organizations across the continent.
Business & Growth. Enterprise sales, strategic partnerships, and US/Canada market operations.
Every document passes through a sophisticated AI pipeline that understands structure, not just text.
Every stage is purpose-built. The result: a translated PDF that preserves the original’s structure down to the pixel.
Every document deserves to cross language barriers without losing its soul.
Vahe & Tatev Aslanyan, Co-Founders
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