Google Translate now handles uploaded documents
My Clippings July 10th, 2009 by System
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Filed under: Office, Web services, Google
Google Translate already provided tools that let users translate snippets of text or entire web pages by entering a URL and choosing the source and output languages. Now you can also upload documents to translate.
Google quietly added the option sometime int he last few days. there’s not a ton of information about the new feature available, but it appears to handle TXT, HTML, XLS, PDF, DOC, and PDF files reasonably well. It choked on an OpenOffice Sheet ODS file I tried to upload.
The results are spit out in HTML format, so if you upload a spreadsheet you won’t get a translated, downloadable spreadsheet in return. Instead you’ll get an HTML table. But this isn’t a bad start. I wouldn’t be surprised if Google eventually adds the ability to open translated documents in Google Docs.
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