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Translate Any Computer File With Google Translate

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By cgull8m

Online translating websites allow translation with only typed or copied text materials and HTML links. Google Translate goes one step further by allowing us to translate documents stored in computers.

How to translate computer files with Google Translate?

  1. Go to Google Translate
  2. Click "upload a document"
  3. Choose the language you want the document to be translated to
  4. Click "translate" button.

Translate computer files with Google Translate.
Translate computer files with Google Translate.


Google Translate converts the documents to HTML first and then translates it. The translated document appears as a HTML document and doesn't preserve the layout or images according to Google Operating System.

Google allows translation in 42 languages as shown in the above picture.

What types of documents we can upload?

  1. The Word documents
  2. PowerPoint presentations
  3. PDF files
  4. HTML
  5. Text files


This covers most of the documents we use.

Google however doesn't allow us to save or upload the translated document. I hope the future versions will have this option and also preserve the document format if possible.

A translated document from Google Translate. Image: Google Operating System.
A translated document from Google Translate. Image: Google Operating System.

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jill of alltrades profile image

jill of alltrades  says:
6 months ago

Cool! Now I can write in French or German or Russian or ...

How accurate are the translations?

BeatsMe profile image

BeatsMe  says:
6 months ago

So now, there is no need to learn another language? We have Google to translate them for us anyway. Just kidding. :)

cgull8m profile image

cgull8m  says:
6 months ago

Jill, it is mostly machine translation, but they welcome our help in fixing any errors in it. Useful tool to have instead of paying too much on software.

BeatsMe, LOL, that will be the next step, Google will be our official robotic translator :)

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