The Azure Document Translation service is part of the Azure Cognitive Service family, allowing to translate complete documents to and from 90 languages and dialects while preserving document structure and data format. The service is new in the Azure offering, and still in preview, but it is fully functional. It contains a set of REST APIs to approach the service programmatically.
Till before the Document Translation, it was difficult to translate full documents. The already existing translation services in Azure allow converting only text, losing, or, at least, making it exceedingly difficult to maintain the layout of the documents. Additionally, it was necessary to extract the text from the document before offering it to the Azure services. All these problems are solved with the Document Translation service.
In this presentation, we will see how the service works, its architecture, and its possibilities. Also, we will examine examples about how to integrate the service with SharePoint and the Power Platform.