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Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. “New features for translating content globally”, Sarah Weldon, Google Cloud, November 1, 2021 “Google Document Translation Now Generally Available”, Renato Losio, InfoQ, November 14, 2021 Well, let’s go and test this an see, Steve adds. If exporting from a platform in say XLIFF or JSON allows processing text only (layout attributes are tagged) and then importing the translation seamlessly into the native platform, he says, you will still need an optical check, but you will have used your resources efficiently. Formatting can be retained throughout the translation process, handled directly by the Translation API Advanced.ĬApStAn co-founder Steve Dept shared the news on his LinkedIn blog saying he did not feel too comfortable sharing it as he still advocates complete separation of text from layout attributes as good practice in translation of web-based materials: “let translators focus on the text, not on getting the layout right”. But now, those steps are unnecessary, Google claims. This required translation teams to do a lot of extra work and maintain a lot of additional code. Until now the translation of documents required that text was separated from the layout attributes, with the document’s structure either lost or recreated after the text translation. For example, readers navigate text and discern meaning based on formatting, like bold or italicized text, or markups for headers, paragraphs, and columns.

Google points out that in many cases, the layout of a document dictates how it should be interpreted. “Formatting matters”, reads the Google Cloud article announcing the new service. This includes right-to-left language support for PDFs, preservation of font size, font color, font style, and hyperlinks for native PDFs. Google Cloud has recently announced the general availability of Document Translation, a new feature of Translation API Advanced, that lets you translate documents in formats such as Docx, PPTx, XLSx, and PDF while preserving document formatting. By Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village

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