Artificial Intelligent

Translator for
Scientific Research
IRNA PUJI LESTARI
Doctoral Student at Gadjah Mada University
Government Financial Analyst Ministry Religious Affairs of Indonesia
 What Is an AI Translation Tool?
Machine translation that converts the source language and produces
an equivalent passage in the target language. The quality of machine
translation varies - as some programs generate more accurate
translations than others.

Benefits of AI Translators for Research

Enhance Productivity Cost-effectiveness Highly customizable

Large volumes of text can be Traditional human translation They can be instructed on
translated by AI-powered services can be costly, specific terminology, industry-
translation tools in a matter of particularly when large volumes specific language, and even
seconds, which is considerably of text or multiple languages tone of voice.
faster than conventional human are involved.
translation services. For example Google Translation,
provides a customizable translation
Free AI translation: Google translate,
service that enables businesses to
Bing Microsoft Translation, DeepL
educate their translation models with
their own data.
Partial page translation: Google if you can't find the icon: go to “settings” 
language  activate “google translate”

OR install google translate extension to your

browser

Or just Right click on the page, then “translate The result

to Indonesia/ other language”
Partial translation: ChatGPT
1. Go to: https://chat.openai.com
2. Log in if you are already registered
3. Then using this command :
4. Copy the text you want to translate
by adding the (“) at the front and
end of the sentence.

VS

From ChatGPT From Google

The translation is more accurate with a research tone the translation is sometimes inaccurate and uses basic tones
Partial translation: ChatGPT
Now let’s try for other language!

Remember the command

From Arabic To English

(Source: Amaraghribi, 2015/ DOI: 10.4197/Islec. 28-3.3) The translation is appropriate and unambiguous
Full Page Translation: Google Translator
1. Go to https://translate.google.com
ORIGINAL FILE (Source: Amaraghribi, 2015)
2. Click document 3. Upload file (pdf,
word, ppt, xls)

4. Choose
the language

Cons: 5. Download
The layout is the result
disorganized 6. File from the translation result
Full Page Translation: Google Docs
1. Open https://drive.google.com/
If the document has not connected to Google Drive, then upload it

2. Open document with Google Docs

3. Click tools  Translate document

5. The result will open in a

new tab

Pros:
• The file is in .doc format so it is
4. Choose target easy to edit
language • Help authors translate their own
writing papers into many
languages
Cons:
The layout is sometimes
disorganized
Full page translation: Onlinedoctranslator
ORIGINAL FILE (Source: Amaraghribi, 2015) 1. Go to https://www.onlinedoctranslator.com/id/translationform

2. Upload Upload file (pdf, word, ppt, xls)

3. Choose language

4. Click here

Pros: 5. Wait until “the download link is ready”

• Keep the original layout
• No need to register
• Supports 109 language
Cons: 5. Click the download link then save the file
6. File from the translation result
Too many pop-up ads
Full page translation: DeepL 6. The result

1. Go to https://www.deepl.com/translator

2. Click translate file 3. Upload file

4. Choose
language

Pros:
• Keep the original layout
5. Click translate into • No need to register
then save result • No ads
Cons:
Limited language (only 31
language, no Arabic)
Full Page Real-time Translation : PDFelement
1. Download and install 2. Open the PDFelement, then open 3. Click AI tools 4. Click Translate pdf
PDFelement pdf document that need to translate

5. Choose the
target language

Pros:
• The translation more accurate
(AI Powered by ChatGPT)
• Offering Proofread PDF
Cons:
5. The AI will translate the document automatically
Limiting to 3 page per document
and real-time according to the page you scroll
for free user
Translate from PDF image-based: Google Translator
Sometimes pdf documents are scanned based on images instead of text

ORIGINAL FILE THE RESULT

Berle & Means (1932). The
Modern Corporation and 1. Save the pdf as image per page one by
Private Property. Commerce one
Clearing House, New York.
2. Go to https://translate.google.com/
(with the same step as document
translation but choose image)
3. Choose the language
4. Upload file
Translate from PDF image-based: Google Docs
1. Go to https://docs.google.com/ 4. The result will open in new tab
2. Open google file pdf (image-based)
3. Click tools  translate document 
choose target language

Cons:
The layout is sometimes
disorganized but it is in
.doc file so we can edit it
Translate from Image source: Using PDFelement (Premium User only)
1. Open file 2. Perform OCR 4. Click AI tools and choose Translate PDF

6. Translation result
Real-time according to
the page you scroll

So we can read in dual

language

3. Click apply 5. Choose The translation results

target language are very accurate and
easy to read
 CONCLUSION

 Current AI translation tools are already very helpful, but

not perfect

 Use the AI translators that suits your need

 For fast reading : Free AI translator could be best
option
 For writing : Google docs + PDFelement (AI proofread)
 For in-depth reading : Premium AI translator