Academic-grade AI translation, natively connected to Obsidian. Local-first, privacy-respecting — designed for the way researchers actually read.
Drag PDF → AI translation → Export to Obsidian
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From ingestion to recall — every layer designed for academic reading.
No per-word billing. Translation runs locally or on your private API node. Your data stays on your machine — always.
One click from translation to atomic notes in your vault. Deep links (sulix://) leap back to the exact PDF paragraph — instantly.
Purpose-built for academic PDFs. Correctly parses dual-column layouts, abstracts, formulas, and figure captions. Scanned PDFs? AI-powered OCR via Marker.
No export pipelines. No manual vim-like rituals.
Drop in a PDF — text or scanned. SAE engine analyses the layout in real time.
Immersive side-by-side view. LaTeX formulas render inline. Per-chunk progress streams in real time.
One click to atomic Markdown notes in your Obsidian vault. Index file with sulix:// anchors auto-generated.
Reviewing notes in Obsidian? Click a sulix:// link — SulixTrans springs to life, scrolls to the exact paragraph, and flashes a blue beacon.
"Translation tools are plentiful. None of them care about what happens after you close the PDF. SulixTrans exists for the last mile — where reading becomes thinking, and thinking becomes notes."