The standard Google Translation service is pretty good for translating documents that exist on the web but if you ever need to translate Word files that reside on your local hard drive, the translator toolkit will come in handy.
It’s an online service where you can upload Word Documents or text files and translate them from one language to another instantly.
The document formatting is more or less preserved and you can download the translated files to your desktop in their original format like Word, OpenOffice or HTML. Unlike regular Google Translation which is read-only, here you also have the option to edit the translated version of the document in the browser itself.
The only condition is that the size of these individual documents, that you intend to upload for translation, should not exceed 1 MB.
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Reader Comments
Did you read the terms of use? Each and every document that is translated and uploaded also becomes Google’s copy and can be used for whatever purpose.
Written by titan on 06.11.09
Super and spanking from general Google translation because it looks like Google bookmark and Google notes facility, but it should be unlimited upload file from hard disk . I think same limitation for wikipedia translation and knol translation???
Thanks Amit Ji I have increased one more Google product in my Google account after yesterday including Google fusion tables.
Written by Vinod on 06.11.09
Amit,
You might have added that (for the moment at any rate) the only source language is English. The drop-down menu just below “Translate from” is misleading. There’s nothing apart from English!
Best regards
Barnaby
Written by Barnaby Capel-Dunn on 06.12.09
Or use the Word translation features powered by WorldLingo or Live Translator addin for Office.
Written by anonymous on 06.13.09