English to Marathi, and Marathi to English
Both directions work the same way. A Word file is edited where it stands: every paragraph style, table, list, header, footer and page setting stays the file’s own and only the words change, so a Marathi circular comes back as an English circular, and an English notice as a Marathi one, with its centred heading, numbered list and bordered table where they were. A PDF with selectable text is first turned into a Word file and then translated, so the result is a Word file you can edit, and how closely it follows the PDF is the PDF-to-Word conversion’s doing.
Translated Marathi is set in Noto Sans Devanagari, as real Unicode text you can search and edit; if that font is not on your computer, choose any Marathi font in Word. Numbers, dates, section references, amounts, times of day, e-mail addresses and web addresses are taken out before a sentence is sent and put back afterwards, and an answer in which one does not come back exactly once is not accepted. A sentence that still cannot be translated stays in the source language and is highlighted yellow; it is never dropped, and never filled in with a guess.
What to read carefully in the Marathi
Marathi marks gender on adjectives and possessives, and the machine does not always know the gender of the noun it is agreeing with. In a real budget document it wrote भारताची where the title needed भारताचे: one letter, the wrong gender, in the most visible line of the file. Read titles and headings first; they are short, out of context, and where such a slip shows most.
Marathi official vocabulary is close to Hindi but not the same, and the engine sometimes reaches for the Hindi word. A department with fixed terms for its schemes, posts and offices should check each one.
What was measured for Marathi
Before Marathi was switched on, the production pipeline translated the test notice from English into Marathi and back. In both directions 6 of 6 protected items came back exactly: the section reference, the year, the date, the amount, the e-mail address and the web address. The Marathi side was written in the Devanagari script, and the English read back close to the original. A Word notice with a heading, a centred line with a bold date, a numbered list, a table, a tab, a header and a footer was also translated into Marathi and back, and its paragraph settings, table grid, page setup, header and footer were identical to the source, on the same number of pages.
That is a check of the machinery, not of the language. It says the tool kept your numbers and your layout; it does not say every sentence reads the way a Marathi writer would put it.
Tested on real Marathi documents
During the quality checks of 22 and 23 October 2026, real documents were translated on the live service: an English budget explainer with ranges, amounts in crore and acronyms, and an English government press release, into Marathi; and a Marathi article about a phone launch, with a list of features, into English. Every one finished with each export check passed and nothing left untranslated.
Reading them found the faults this page warns about, and the pipeline was changed where it could be: ranges and crore figures are kept as written, an acronym is protected like a code, and a person’s name keeps one spelling through the document. The title’s gender is wording, which no pipeline check can fix, so it is left to you to read.
Marathi in a scan or an old font
A scanned PDF has no text to translate, so it is refused rather than guessed at. Read it first with Marathi OCR, correct what needs correcting, and translate the Word file that comes out. Marathi set in Akruti, Shree-Lipi, Kruti Dev or DevLys pastes as Latin letters; convert it to Unicode first with the converter for that font, then translate.
Footnotes, endnotes and comments are not translated yet, and the result says so. Text inside a picture is not translated. Marathi OCR reads scans of printed Marathi, and its Word file can be translated straight away.