to reconstruct the translated content as regular text PDF while retaining the original layout and structure.įont formatting like bold, italics, underline, highlights, etc.

to route PDFs containing scanned image content to an OCR engine internally to extract text,.

to identify whether the PDF document contains scanned image content or not,.

This creates workflow issues as customers have to route PDF documents with scanned image content first to an OCR engine before sending them to document translation.ĭocument translation services now have the intelligence Customers find it difficult to segregate PDF documents which have regular text or scanned image content through automation. Translating PDFs with scanned image content is a highly requested feature from Document translation customers.

Document translation is enterprise-ready with Azure Active Directory authentication, providing secured access between the service and storage through Managed Identity.

Document translation supports a variety of file types, including Word, PowerPoint and PDF, and customers can use either pre-built or custom machine translation models.

Today, the Document translation feature of Translator, a Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service, adds the ability to translate PDF documents containing scanned image content, eliminating the need for customers to preprocess them through an OCR engine before translation.ĭocument translation was made generally available last year, May 25, 2021, allowing customers to translate entire documents and batches of documents into more than 110 languages and dialects while preserving the layout and formatting of the original file.

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