In a nutshell
- Translations and glossaries each have a maximum size of 1MB.
- Documents can be uploaded in most common file formats.
- Translation memories have a maximum size of 50MB per upload.
- Google Translator Toolkit is free, but in the future, we plan to charge users whose translations exceed high-volume thresholds.
Size and format limits for uploads
Translations
- AdWords Editor Archive (.aea)
- HTML
- Plain text (.txt)
- Microsoft Word (.doc)
- Rich-text (.rtf)
- Open Office (.odt)
- Wikipedia™
- knol
Note: An AdWords Editor Archive (.aea) file compresses the document that contains your AdWords keywords and ad text. 1MB of keywords and ad text (approximately 20,000 words) is about 25Kb when compressed in an AdWords Editor Archive file; thus, the limit for .aea files is 25Kb.
Translation memories
- Each uploaded translation memory can be up to 50MB per upload.
- You can upload translation memories in Translation Memory eXchange (TMX) format.
- You can upload up to 1GB of translation memories per year.
Glossaries
- Each uploaded glossary can be up to 1MB per upload.
- You can upload glossaries in our custom glossary format.
- You can upload up to 1GB of glossaries per year.