Translate documents and long text

Send a file or paste the text. It comes back in the languages you asked for, with the words that matter left alone.

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  • Fifteen languages
  • You pay for speech, not silence
  • No monthly fee

Who this is for

A parish bulletin that has to go out in three languages every week. Course notes for students who arrived this year. A contract somebody needs to read before signing something in a language they do not have. Anything long enough that translating it by hand is a day of work.

How it works

  1. 1

    You upload the file — or paste the text, if that is easier.

  2. 2

    We pull the text out, optionally stripping HTML and stray characters if you ask.

  3. 3

    It is translated in pieces, in order, into every language you chose.

  4. 4

    You download each language as plain text, ready to paste wherever it goes.

What you get

  • txt, md, csv, docx, odt, pdf, doc and rtf accepted.
  • Up to fifteen languages from one submission.
  • An option to clean HTML and odd characters before translating.
  • Long documents handled in order, so nothing arrives shuffled.
  • Charged by character, so a short note costs almost nothing.
  • Results kept for fifteen days in your account.

Worth knowing: 100,000 characters per job, around thirty-five pages. Layout is not preserved: what comes back is the text, not your document with its fonts and its columns. A PDF that is a scan has no text in it to extract — that needs the transcription service, not this one.

What it costs

€30 per million characters

Three euros per hundred thousand characters and per language: in a text each language is a whole translation. In the credit pot, 6,667 characters make one credit.

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Questions

Does it keep my formatting?
No. You get the text back, not the document. Bold, columns and page breaks are not carried over — paste it into your own template.
Can it read a scanned PDF?
No. A scan is a picture of text and there is nothing to extract. If it is a recording of somebody reading it, transcription can help; a photograph of paper cannot.
What does the cleaning option do?
Strips HTML tags and the stray characters that come with copied web pages, so the translation is of your text and not of the markup around it.
How long does it take?
Minutes for anything normal. Text is far quicker than audio because there is nothing to listen to.
Is my document kept?
The file you sent is deleted when the job finishes. The translation stays in your account for fifteen days.

The rest of what happens to a file

The same file, the same engine and the same pot of credits. Almost nobody needs just one of these: whoever transcribes a session ends up wanting to know who spoke.

Meeting notesWhat was decided, who takes each task, and the minute it was saidTranscriptionA recording becomes text in the language it was spoken in.SubtitlesSRT and VTT with their timings, ready to drop on a video.Translate recordingsThat same recording, in every language you need.Who said whatWho said what, marked in the transcript.

Start with the one you keep putting off

The bulletin, the notes, the thing that has been waiting for somebody with a free afternoon.

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