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.

The file you sent is deleted when the job finishes. The translation stays in your account for seven days.

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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Fourteen 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
You upload the file — or paste the text, if that is easier.
2
We pull the text out, optionally stripping HTML and stray characters if you ask.
3
It is translated in pieces, in order, into every language you chose.
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 fourteen 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 seven 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

40 € per million characters

About four euros for a hundred thousand characters. Extra languages add 35% each, because the source is read once and translated many times.

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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 seven days.

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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