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Have you ever received an email or a document and did not know what it said? APAN provides you several solutions for this situation. Translate text, documents, and the APAN webpage. Need to chat with someone who doesn't speak your same language? No problem, use APAN Group Chat to translate their language to yours, and your language to theirs.
Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (simplified), Dari, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
There are two ways you'll be able to translate an APAN page to a different language.
The APAN translate service helps users translate blocks of text.
You can translate documents in two locations.
A group owner, must first turn on the feature. Do turn on the APAN Group Options, go here.
Documents that can be translated will have text in them. Images with text overlays, may not translate.
The translation is performed by a computer, so there may be unexpected variations within the translation.
Yes, your information you translate within your group does remain on third-party servers; however, you have the option to change this.
If you would like to change third-party settings to servers within APAN for your Group:
Third-Party Translation - Translation by third-party
If you would like to change third-party settings to servers within APAN for your Site:
You can use the above steps and then upload your content, or you can translate directly within a media gallery, here.
Users can translate Microsoft files within media galleries that are 10 MB.