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Microsoft Document Translator

Microsoft Document Translator

The Microsoft Document Translator translates Microsoft Office, plain text, and PDF files, from any of the 50 languages supported by the Microsoft Translator web service, to any other of these 50 languages. Document Translator uses the customer's own credentials and subscription to perform the service, and will make use of any translation stored in the collaborative translations framework, as well as making use of customer's customized MT system.

Overview

Translate one or more Office documents, plain text or PDF files to another language, in one go.

Purpose

Translate an Office document and receive a translated Office document in full fidelity, as an Office document. The translated Office document is fully editable like any normal Office document.

Key Features

• Enter account credentials
• Define a Hub-customized system to use (optional)
• Select the files to translate
• Choose from and to langauges. From is optional, in that case the system auto-detects the language.
• Document Translator creates translated files in the same folder as the original, with a name like originalname.language.docx

Usage

Runs on Windows 7 and above. Requires .Net Framework 4.5. The Release is an MSI package, install directly in Windows.

• Start Microsoft Document Translator from the Start Menu.
• Visit the settings page and follow the links to subscribe to Microsoft Translator. Free for up to 2 million characters per month.
• On the settigs page, follow the link to defining your client ID and secret, and copy them to the settings page.
• Go to the document translation page and select the documents to translate.
• Select the from and to languages.
• Hit Go.

Command line operation

Document Translator can be run from the command line:

Translate documents:

DocumentTranslatorCmd translatedocuments /sourcedocuments:d:\testdocuments\*.docx /targetlanguages:de,el

*When a wildcard is given, Document Translator recurses through subdirectories.

Set credentials:

DocumentTranslatorCmd setcredentials /clientid:ClientId /clientsecret:ClientSecret

How to build Document Translator

Microsoft Document Translator is written in C#, using Visual Studio 2013.

It depends on

• First Floor MUI
• Microsoft.Practices.Prism for the messaging and interfaces
• OpenXml for the Office document handling
• Wix Toolkit for the installer

*You need to install these separately if you want to build.

##Third party notices

This project uses: First Floor MUI

(c) First Floor Software

Under the Ms-PL: https://github.com/firstfloorsoftware/mui/blob/master/LICENSE.md

Available from: https://github.com/firstfloorsoftware/mui

##Security All requests to the Translator service are SSL encrypted, using the certificate of the Microsoft Translator service. Document Translator stores the service access credentials (client ID and client secret) unencypted in the user profile on the machine. For enterprise use we recommend to implement a more secure storage mechanism.

##Questions and Support For questions and support please turn to the Microsoft Translator developer forum:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?category=translation

##Enhancements Please branch and contribute back your enhancements. Especially interested in additional file formats.