You can translate text, handwriting, photos and speech in over 200 languages with the Google Translate app. You can also use Translate on the web. Translate documents You can translate documents up to 10 MB in any of these formats: .docx, .pdf, .pptx, .xlsx. PDF files must be 300 pages or fewer. To translate more documents or larger documents, learn about the Cloud Translation API. Important: Document translation isn’t currently supported on smaller screens or mobile. Image recognition or computer vision technology is not advanced enough to read and extract the human handwriting and convert into readable text, at least for non- English or non-Latin scripts. Translate longer text You can translate up to 5,000 characters at a time when you copy and paste your text. On your computer, open Google Translate . At the top of the screen, choose the language that you want to translate to and from. From: Choose a language or select Detect language. To : Select the language that you want the translation in.