Target file unreadeble

Abdullah Safdar Ali 1

Hello,

I created a translator resource and blob container for translator. Using storage explorer I uploaded a document in source blob.
. After that I created SAS signatures and sent this request in the body from postman:

   {  
       "inputs": [  
           {  
               "storageType": "file",  
               "source": {  
                   "sourceUrl": "https://resourcename.blob.core.windows.net/source/sourcefile.pdf?sv=2020-04-08&st=2021-07-07&se=2021-07-08T23&sr=b&sp=r&sig="  
               },  
               "language": "en",  
               "targets": [  
                   {     
                       "targetUrl": "https://resourcename.blob.core.windows.net/target/translationresult.docx?sv=2020-04-08&st=2021-07-07T23&se=2021-07-&sr=c&sp=wl&sig=  
                       "language": "ar"  
                   }  
               ]  
           }  
       ]  
   }

Source SAS is of the file and target SAS is of container as written in the docs. The result I get in result blob:

As shown it is 0 bytes and content-type is octet-stream. For 1 file I changed it to openxml and the size of the file was increased but I still am unable to open it.
.

Let me know what can I do.

Regards

romungi-MSFT 43,656 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-07-08T11:14:17.027+00:00

@Abdullah Safdar Ali I think the target file is obviously corrupted and as per your request I see that you have specified the content type header as octet-stream and openxml. As per the reference this header is not required.
If you would like to pass the same you could use application/json or charset=UTF-8 as per the quickstart.

Also, The first language field "language": "en", is not required.

Could you please check if the above suggestions help?
Abdullah Safdar Ali 1 Reputation point

2021-07-08T20:40:48.677+00:00

@romungi-MSFT I didn't specify content type header. It was octet-stream by default. My request is same as documented in reference. I also removed language field, and result is same file with 0 bytes.

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romungi-MSFT 43,656 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-07-09T07:03:37.58+00:00

@Abdullah Safdar Ali I was able to replicate your issue, The reason you see that error is because you are using your target file format as .docx instead of .pdf
The translator preserves the format of the document and you need to use the same format for your target file. In the files that you have already translated you can view them with a PDF viewer and it should open without any errors. I hope this helps, please feel free to accept the same as answer if it helped.

Error if I open the .docx translated file with word

Same doc with a PDF viewer
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Abdullah Safdar Ali 1 Reputation point

2021-07-09T20:00:41.107+00:00

@romungi-MSFT Thanks alot dear. It opens fine with pdf viewer but it still doesn't help with my use case if I want to edit the translation.

romungi-MSFT 43,656 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-07-12T05:06:41.87+00:00

@Abdullah Safdar Ali The translation service cannot change the document format in the translated document. If you would like to edit a PDF you can use paid version of Adobe PDF or use a word document as the original document and then edit the translated document using word. The list of all supported document types are mentioned here.

Abdullah Safdar Ali 1 Reputation point

2021-07-15T11:59:59.81+00:00

Forgive me if I misunderstood. But what you are saying is if I upload pdf to translate the output will be pdf too? But I have been using translator app (not the API) it give the output file as docx. I will be waiting for your response

romungi-MSFT 43,656 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-07-15T12:17:31.047+00:00

In the initial question you used the request body with the source and target to call with the API and I think you could verify that the document got translated too. The API does not change the document type in the target.

Azure translator resource offers the API for text and document translation. Which app are you referring to?

Abdullah Safdar Ali 1 Reputation point

2021-07-23T13:53:24.037+00:00

I am referring to API and document translation to be precise as you can see in the request body. I understand from your response (correct me if I am wrong) that the target file will be of same type as of the source (source pdf = target pdf). Now I gave an example of translator APP where the result file is in docx format.

romungi-MSFT 43,656 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-07-26T13:35:12.617+00:00

Yes, I was referring to the API request sent to Azure resource. For the app example though, I think you are referring to this a github repo where customers can run the solution and install this as an app. This is actually an offering to translate a document prior to the API service offered directly from Azure translator resource. This can still be used and as you mentioned it can translate PDF to word as mentioned in its documentation. However, I did not get a chance to try this scenario as this is a separate solution and tracks the issues related to it in the github repo itself. It would be great if you could report the same on the repo. Thanks!!
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