IPA from PDF
Get IPA for any PDF — without copy-pasting
Select a word in any PDF, press a hotkey, and read the phonetic transcription right where you are. No browser tab, no copy-paste — and scanned PDFs work too, via OCR.
Free forever. 10 transcriptions/day. macOS & Windows.
PDFs are where pronunciation lookups go to die
Academic papers, exam prep, downloaded textbooks, research in your target language — so much serious reading happens in PDFs. And PDFs are the worst case for pronunciation: you select a word, switch to a browser, open a converter, paste, read the IPA, switch back, and try to find your place again.
Do that twenty times in a chapter and you have spent more time tab-switching than reading. Scanned PDFs are even worse — you cannot even select the text to copy it.
In place, in any reader
IPAtics runs in the background, so the IPA comes to the PDF instead of you going to a converter.
Select-in-PDF, hotkey, done
Highlight a word in any PDF reader and press Alt+Q. The IPA appears in a floating overlay over the page — your place never moves.
OCR for scanned PDFs
No text layer? Drag a box over the words and IPAtics reads them with OCR, then transcribes. Scanned books and image-only PDFs included.
Native audio on every word
Hear the word as you read the IPA. No separate audio lookup, no downloads.
Save and flashcard it
Star the word to your library or generate Anki cards — every PDF lookup can become review material.
How it works
Open your PDF in any reader
Preview, Acrobat, a browser PDF viewer — it does not matter. IPAtics works on top of all of them.
Select text and press Alt+Q
Or, for a scanned PDF, use screenshot OCR to grab the words from the image.
Read, hear, and save
IPA appears in an overlay with audio. Tap symbols to learn them, save the word, or send it to Anki.
See the full reading-to-pronunciation pipeline in From PDF to fluent: the 2-second pronunciation workflow.
Frequently asked questions
Read your PDFs out loud, correctly
Free for macOS and Windows. Get IPA on any PDF — selectable or scanned — without breaking your reading flow.