Saturday, March 07, 2009

Translate PDF Files and Office Documents

This seems to be a recent change: Google Translate can now be used to translate PDF files and Microsoft Office documents. Google first converts the document to the HTML format and then it displays the translated HTML file.

The nice thing is that Google converts the documents on the fly even if they haven't been indexed by Google. Just paste the address of a document in Google Translate's textarea and wait until the translation shows up. Unfortunately, the service is not well-suited for long documents: it only translated the first 9 pages of a PDF file.


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Translate PDF Files and Office Documents by Alex Chitu
  12 comments ( Post a comment )
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Blogger Adrian said on March 8, 2009 1:12 AM PDT:
Very userful feature :)
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Blogger zhangsheng said on March 8, 2009 4:02 AM PDT:
google function
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Blogger cgull said on March 8, 2009 4:49 AM PDT:
Good job, I hope they also allow uploading of files to be translated.
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Blogger cgull said on March 8, 2009 4:59 AM PDT:
I translated this 129 page document it translated all of it. http://www.cbs.state.or.us/external/osha/pdf/dictionary/spanish-english.pdf

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbs.state.or.us%2Fexternal%2Fosha%2Fpdf%2Fdictionary%2Fspanish-english.pdf&sl=es&tl=en&swap=1
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Anonymous web design ireland said on March 9, 2009 6:42 AM PDT:
recession or not google still seems to be pumping out some useful tools.
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Anonymous Anonymous said on March 9, 2009 11:59 PM PDT:
very useful!!
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Anonymous Anonymous said on March 14, 2009 11:40 AM PDT:
nice
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Anonymous Shailendra singh said on March 14, 2009 9:57 PM PDT:
Good information.Now Goolge can translate Pdf documents.
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Blogger helmy_rossy said on April 2, 2009 4:13 AM PDT:
very easy and accurate enoug, please try every one!!!
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Anonymous Anonymous said on July 12, 2009 5:04 AM PDT:
Unfortunately it does not translate large files! There is a limitation on the file, and it does not mention what that limitation is!
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Anonymous translate pdf said on September 21, 2009 1:08 PM PDT:
I get some unreadable translations with safari and firefox browsers, is this browser issue or?
By unreadable I mean the text is not formatted properly and the words are one over other all over the translated document (pdf in my case)
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Anonymous Anonymous said on October 5, 2009 4:21 PM PDT:
amazing!!
What do you think?
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