{"id":135532,"date":"2023-12-12T03:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/?p=135532"},"modified":"2023-12-12T03:11:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:11:02","slug":"how-to-translate-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/how-to-translate-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Translate Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"daves-3927125788\" class=\"daves-single-post-before-content\" style=\"margin-bottom: 25px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2700504761\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/word-translate.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-135541\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/word-translate-640x213.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/word-translate-640x213.png 640w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/word-translate-350x116.png 350w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/word-translate-150x50.png 150w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/word-translate-768x255.png 768w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/word-translate.png 1126w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love that we live in a world of diverse cultures and rich languages, but we don&#8217;t always understand what we&#8217;re reading. For my part, whilst I speak fluent Spanish and can read and write in that language, sometimes I need more than a little help. I&#8217;m reminded of this fact by coming across Dick Evans&#8217; excellent article from March 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/how-to-translate-foreign-language-pdf-to-doc\/\">How To Translate Foreign Language PDF To DOC<\/a> where he used both the Microsoft Word built-in translator and Google Translate. In the short time since Dick&#8217;s article was published, technology has moved in in strides, unsurprisingly. Up until recently, I&#8217;ve been using Google Translate, then I came across DeepL and from Dick&#8217;s article, learned that Microsoft Word also has a translate feature.<\/p>\n<h2>Office 365 Translate To English<\/h2>\n<p>For example, I&#8217;m translating the incoming Argentine government plan which was sent to me as a .pdf file and whilst I understand most of it, there are some words that I would need to translate. Instead of pausing to consult a dictionary, it&#8217;s a lot quicker to translate the entire document, so first I went to Word in Office 365 which I subscribe to. Then I opened the .pdf, saved it as a .docx, hit Preview, and then Translate.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/word-translate-document.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-135535\" src=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/word-translate-document.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/word-translate-document.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/word-translate-document-350x99.jpg 350w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/word-translate-document-640x182.jpg 640w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/word-translate-document-150x43.jpg 150w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/word-translate-document-768x218.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The end result was an English version which I then saved as a .docx and the translation was better than expected with the entire process completed in just a few seconds.<\/p>\n<h2>DeepL Translate<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deepl.com\/translator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DeepL<\/a> for quite some time and find it useful for grabbing text from a media article, translating it, and then posting it into my expats&#8217; forum for those who don&#8217;t speak Spanish. The free version has a limit of 500,000 characters (about 1500 words) per month and can also translate entire documents, so I uploaded the .pdf and within about 30 seconds the document was translated into English, even though it contains 2860 words.<\/p><div id=\"daves-526243511\" class=\"daves-single-post-in-content\" style=\"margin-bottom: 25px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2700504761\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/deepL-translate.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-135536 size-large\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/deepL-translate-640x353.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/deepL-translate-640x353.jpg 640w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/deepL-translate-350x193.jpg 350w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/deepL-translate-150x83.jpg 150w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/deepL-translate-768x424.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/deepL-translate-1320x729.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/deepL-translate.jpg 1454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The finished translation was almost identical to Office 365 and I spotted no obvious errors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Google Translate<\/h2>\n<p>This works in a similar way to <strong>DeepL<\/strong> where you simply copy and paste the text into the auto-detect language box and then select the language you need to be translated into. I believe the limit is 1500 words per translation.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/google-translate.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-135537 size-large\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/google-translate-640x297.jpg\" alt=\"google-translate\" width=\"640\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/google-translate-640x297.jpg 640w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/google-translate-350x163.jpg 350w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/google-translate-150x70.jpg 150w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/google-translate-768x357.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/google-translate.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Again, I uploaded the .pdf file and <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Translate<\/a> churned out a downloadable translated file in about 30 seconds.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/google-translate-document.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-135539\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/google-translate-document-640x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/google-translate-document-640x178.jpg 640w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/google-translate-document-350x98.jpg 350w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/google-translate-document-150x42.jpg 150w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/google-translate-document-768x214.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/google-translate-document-1536x428.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/google-translate-document-1320x368.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/davescomputertips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/google-translate-document.jpg 1625w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The downloaded document is a .pdf file which you can open in a browser and whilst not as good as DeepL or Word, it serves as another useful resource.<\/p><div id=\"daves-885181864\" class=\"daves-single-post-in-content-2\" style=\"margin-bottom: 25px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"2700504761\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>With machine learning improving as time marches on, translating documents has never been easier and whilst I would never trust a machine to translate one of my novels for the obvious reasons of nuance and writing style, it&#8217;s a huge leap forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<div id=\"daves-3308654788\" class=\"daves-after-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7205184075006101\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7205184075006101\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"3225321574\" \ndata-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\" data-full-width-responsive=\"false\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love that we live in a world of diverse cultures and rich languages, but we don&#8217;t always understand what we&#8217;re reading. 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