Edge’s PDF reader allows you to translate documents: this is how it works

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With the passage of time and despite the different programs that we have at our disposal to open and view PDF files, browsers are becoming an excellent option. Since its inception, Microsoft Edge has wanted to become a powerful alternative for these tasks with office files.

In fact, by now many users use the software giant’s web browser to open and take a look at the content of their PDF files. This is something that Windows allows us to configure by default so that this program opens when we double-click on these office files. In addition, here we find some useful basic editing tools and, in turn, note that the file opens practically immediately.

Hence, Microsoft is working on new functions in this regard to help users with the PDFs that we are talking about. Now the company is working on a new feature that at the same time allows us to translate documents in the PDF reader included in Edge. There is no doubt that this is a feature that will be extremely useful when working with these files that we are talking about and opening them. Perhaps the question that some of you are asking is precisely how it will work.

Well, this is a discovery that has been made recently in the test version of Microsoft’s browser, we are referring to Edge Canary. And it is that the experimental version of the program now allows users to translate the selected text when we are working with the native PDF reader.

How the PDF translator works in Edge

In order to take full advantage of this functionality, users can now select the text of the PDF they wish to translate. Then just right-click on it and click on the three dots to access More actions / Translate selection. It is worth mentioning that until now this option is an option that was disabled in the context menu. But it seems that right now Microsoft is getting closer to making it available to everyone.

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Edge’s PDF reader will let you translate the selected text, in Edge Canary that option is no longer grayed out in the context menu, the text itself is not yet translated, but I expect this to start working in the next few days:

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But all this has a downside, at least for the moment, and that is that the translation function is not yet fully functional. At the same time some users of the Canary version may still find the feature greyed out. It’s also unclear if Microsoft will use Bing AI or Bing Translator for all of this. With everything and with this, this incorporation continues to be a positive development, since it will facilitate communication between users, exchanging PDF files in different languages, something quite common these days.

Keep in mind that Google Chrome, Edge’s direct competitor, does not yet have a translation function in its PDF reader. But it does have a built-in feature that allows users to translate entire web pages with a single click on the Google Translate icon. We will see this located next to the address bar. Now all that remains is to hope that this new PDF translation feature continues to spread to finally reach everyone.

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