Translations in PDF viewer

[JJRcop]

Currently on Firefox 124.0.2, the built-in Translations feature is not available when viewing a PDF. This would be very handy to have as it's already quite useful on the web.

 

[Jon]

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[marco]

We have been thinking about this.

Implementing it for full PDF translation will take a while, but soon we will release the selection translation feature which will work in PDFs too (you will be able to select text on a web page or on a PDF and translate it).

[fvvgwg2r]

@marco 

I opened this topic precisely to suggest this: it would be fantastic [and the translator implementations are for me, Italian, the biggest problem of Firefox compared to Edge (desktop and for iOS)].

The user interface with which Edge translates parts of PDF is very well done because it opens a sidebar on the right that remains open and automatically translates the text you select

[marco]

@fvvgwg2ryou can test our implementation in Firefox Nightly, it is working for PDFs too (just select some text, right click, and a panel will open).

[marco]