Chrome extension
Translate the file without moving it
Translate a PDF already open in Chrome, a Gmail thread and its attachments, or a file in Drive or Dropbox. Right-click, translate and get the formatted document back — without the download-upload-reupload loop.
No credit card required · Your first translation in minutes.
The shortest path from file to translated file
The extension removes the part nobody values: moving the document between the place it arrived and the place it gets translated.
Act on the file in front of you
A PDF in the browser, an attachment in Gmail or a document in Drive can be translated from its existing context instead of being downloaded first.
Keep loose copies off the laptop
No download means no second copy in somebody's downloads folder and less content sitting outside the permissions and retention controls it started with.
Get the real document back
Tables, numbering, headers, footnotes and layouts return in place. The result is a file you can use, not extracted text you still have to rebuild.
The six steps this removes
Download the PDF
It lands in a downloads folder, which is now an untracked second copy of a confidential document.
Find it again
The slowest step, and the one everyone underestimates.
Open a tab and upload it
The context switch is where the workflow gets abandoned.
Wait, then download again
Now there are three copies.
Attach it to the reply
By this point the task has taken longer than reading the document.
Do it again tomorrow
“Supervisory authority leaflets are always in PDF using really weird formats, so whenever we need to translate we're always copy pasting.”
Where it works
Any PDF on the open web
Most PDFs never arrive as an attachment. They are a link on a regulator’s site, a tender pack, a spec sheet, a statement behind a client portal login. Right-click the link — or the PDF already open in the tab — and the translated file comes back in its original format.
- Right-click any PDF link, or the PDF open in front of you
- Works behind a login, in the session you are already in
- Nothing downloaded, so no untracked second copy
- PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX and scans
Gmail: the message and everything attached to it
Translate the body of the email inside the thread, and the PDF or DOCX hanging off it, without leaving Gmail. Useful for the chain that arrives half in one language and half in another — read it, translate the attachment, reply with the translation, and nothing touches your filesystem.
- Translate the message itself, in the thread
- Translate the attachment and reply with the translated file
- Built for Gmail and Google Workspace accounts
- Outlook: attachments only — translating the message itself is Gmail
Google Drive and Dropbox
Translate a stored file in place and write the translated version back into the same folder, so it inherits the permissions the original already had rather than becoming a loose copy nobody is tracking.
- Result written back beside the original
- Keeps the file inside its existing permissions
- No export, no re-upload, no version drift
What your security team will ask
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What can the extension read? | Only the file you act on. Nothing is read until you click to send a file to Bluente. |
| Does it read pages I have not acted on? | No. Only files you explicitly send to Bluente are processed. |
| Where does the file go? | To Bluente for translation, encrypted in transit and with AES-256 at rest, then automatically deleted within 24 hours. |
| Is it used to train models? | No. Documents are never used as training data. |
| Can we deploy it centrally? | Yes. Central rollout is supported — talk to us about how you want it deployed. |
| How many file formats? | 27 file types across 120+ languages. |
File types it handles
Frequently asked questions
Is it free?
Does it work in Edge or Firefox?
Does it translate the email itself, or only the attachment?
Does the formatting survive?
Can it handle scanned PDFs?
Can I lock our terminology?
How large a file can it handle?
Add it to Chrome
Free to install. The useful test is the attachment that failed somewhere else.