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Main features

  • Translates typed text
  • Recognizes and translates text in uploaded images
  • Translates documents such as PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel
  • Translates web pages from a URL

Best for

Suited to reading short texts, images and web pages across languages, and to translating common office documents.

Things to know

  • Supported file formats, sizes and languages are as shown on the page
  • Check important content against the original, especially numbers and proper nouns
  • Confirm privacy and data handling requirements before uploading files

FAQ

Can it translate web pages directly?
The web version has a website translation entry: enter the address to open the translation.
Which files can it translate?
The web version's document entry lists DOCX, PDF, PPTX and XLSX; limits are as shown on the page.