Germany · Tool
Tame your paper
A German letter arrived and you cannot read a word of it. Find out what it is, how serious it is, and whether it wants anything from you.
Your letter has your name, your address and usually an account number on it. Your photo never leaves this device, so none of that reaches us. You can choose to send the text for a reading, and we take your details out and show you the exact words before they go.
Show it the letter
The first photo downloads the reader itself, about four megabytes, from us rather than from anyone else. After that it works with no connection at all.
A PDF from an office portal or an e-mail is read straight from its text, which is faster and more exact than any photo. A scanned one is read like a photo instead.
Two or three words is enough. The sender is usually the largest text on the page, and you can copy it without knowing what it means.
What this does not do
It names the letter and shows you what we have already checked against the office that publishes it. It does not read your letter word for word, it does not tell you what to decide, and it never answers on your behalf.
Why we stop hereThe official wording Working out what a particular letter means for your particular case is a legal service under German law, and only certain people may provide one. That is why this tool names a letter and shows you what the office that sends it has published, and stops there. It is not caution on our part; it is the line the law draws. Source ↗