AI Document Translator: Translate Files in 280+ Languages

Yes, you can use AI to translate your documents with Smartcat's Document Translation Agent. This agent that translates editable documents — like Word, Google Docs, or training guides — while preserving formatting, structure, and brand voice. It's quick and easy to do. Set up your free trial with Smartcat and then upload your document to start a new project. 

Select the languages you want to translate your document into and then run the AI translation. Afterwards, you'll be able to download your translated document in the new language(s), while keeping the original layout intact.

Yes. Upload your .doc or .docx file to Smartcat, choose your target languages, and run the translation. Fonts, tables, images, headers, and footers stay exactly where they belong in the translated file, so there's no manual reformatting afterwards. You can review and edit the result in the Smartcat Editor with your team before downloading a ready-to-share Word document. Google Docs are supported too — see the Google Docs translator.

Upload an XLSX or XLS file — or export your Google Sheet — and Smartcat translates the cell contents while keeping the spreadsheet's structure intact. Column layouts and data stay in place, so product catalogs, financial reports, and trackers come out formatted and ready to use. For a spreadsheet-focused workflow, use the dedicated Excel translator.

Yes. Smartcat's TXT file translator handles plain-text files in seconds: upload the .txt file, select from 280+ target languages, and download the translated version with line breaks and encoding preserved. It works for single files or batches — app strings, subtitle exports, or drafts.

Yes. Unlike free web translators that limit how much text you can paste at once, Smartcat handles complete manuals, contracts, and books — hundreds of pages in a single project. Translation memory keeps terminology consistent from the first page to the last, and your team can review and edit collaboratively without splitting the file. For long passages of raw text, use the large text translator.

Smartcat's Document Translation Agent achieves 95%+ accuracy on the first run-through with its AI-powered translations. For top quality, finalize your translations with human reviewers for final quality checks on the translated file for accurate translations.

Smartcat's Document Translation Agent allows you to translate documents in 280+ languages, simultaneously.

Yes, Smartcat's Document Translation Agent uses advanced optical character recognition (OCR) technology to extract embedded image content. This means you can extract text from scanned PDFs and other types of image files including PNG, DOCX, XLSX, TXT, GIF and JPG.

Smartcat's Document Translation Agent is trusted by more than 1,000 global companies, including 20% of the Fortune 500, for their translation needs within a language translation NLP market forecast to approach US$10 billion in 2025.^[1]

Translate any document type into any language in seconds with Smartcat's Document Translation AI agent. Sign up in seconds, drag and drop your files into the agent, choose your languages, and run your translations. In seconds, you will have your AI document translated into the language of your choice.

The translation process combines AI translation, glossaries, translation memories, and reviewer collaboration all in one platform. Each translation helps Smartcat’s AI agents learn from your edits, so quality continues to grow over time.

Smartcat's PDF Translation Agent's intuitive interface allows you to upload any PDF document, run your AI translations in minutes, while keeping your original formatting in tact. With advanced optical character recognition (OCR) built in, you can capture and translate embedded text for a smooth end result.

Smartcat offers a 14-day free trial. During that time, you can use AI translation and measure your ROI savings firsthand. After the trial, you can choose from pricing tiers for small teams or large enterprises. This flexible approach helps you balance budget and global expansion.

AI document translation offers faster turnaround times and lower costs than a fully human-only approach, a benefit that is helping drive the language translation NLP market toward an estimated US$9.87 billion in revenue by 2025.^[1] Recent advances make quality nearly indistinguishable from human review. For the best results, you can pair your AI results with a human reviewer to finalize your files. This approach speeds up projects, ensures consistency, and maximizes ROI.

For now, human reviewers are essential for ensuring top quality translation results; the continued employment of about 51,560 interpreters and reviewers in the United States alone underscores this ongoing human role.^[2]

Smartcat's Document Translation Agent combines AI translation and professional human review, which is crucial for complex content like legal or medical documents. AI agents speed up the process, then human reviewers finalize the details. You get high-quality translations without lengthy timelines.

Yes, you just upload your PowerPoint presentation into the Document Translation Agent, translate it using AI, review and edit the results in the Smartcat Editor, then download your PPTX file in the new language. The format of the original presentation will be kept intact.

Translate your video, audio, and subtitle files with Smartcat’s Media Translation Agent. Get subtitles automatically burned into your target language files, edit your source text before translation, and receive high-quality video translations.

Translate a wide range of multimedia file formats, including SRT, VTT, AVI, MP4, MP3, MPEG, MOV, FLV, and many more with this agent.

Translating marketing documents allows companies to appeal to audiences whose native language differs from the home-market language— a need reflected in the U.S. translation-services market, which was valued at roughly US$10.5 billion in 2022.^[3] Studies show that customer engagement is higher when people are communicated to in their native language.

By translating marketing and advertising documents, companies are also able to reuse the same source language marketing materials in other languages and for other markets. Marketing document translation can help power growth, streamline processes, and customer retention in other markets too through overcoming language barriers.

The market for AI-generated content is "burgeoning" and expected to grow exponentially. IDC predicts that Generative AI will account for 33% of the total AI market in China by 2027. This underscores the increasing economic value and adoption of AI for content creation, a fundamental aspect of marketing.^[4]