Microsoft word translation issues with auto-detect source document language

[microsofttranslator]

Microsoft word translation issues with auto-detect source document language

[TGuiMel]

Issue 1 could be solved by extracting paragraph instead of text elements, then merging all the text elements of each paragraph into a single string. You can split the paragraph if you would rather detect the source language and translate by sentence.

The downside is that all formatting is lost. Perhaps the TranslateArray2 method, which returns alignment information, could be used to restore the original formatting in the translated string.

[jsypkens]

Right now TranslateArray2 doesn't support neural network translation, which puts a slight hamper on that approach.

For issue 2: yesterday I modified the detection as described above. It now processes the entire document first with "DetectArray", then filters out any array elements where the detected language matches the target language for the translation. Then it passes only the remaining elements through the translation, and updates the documents with the translations for those elements.

It seems like a decent approach, and anecdotally it appears to have resolved my issue with this one German document. We need to see how it performs on a wider variety of documents to determine if it's a scalable approach.

[chriswendt1]

@jsypkens, did your approach succeed? Do you want to make a pull request with your change?