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ArcSolve Translate Safety Guide

Effective Date: April 11, 2026

ArcSolve Translate Chrome Extension detects PDF links, opens PDFs in a built-in viewer, and optionally translates PDF text. This guide explains how to use it safely and understand its limits.

ArcSolve Translate was previously referred to as ArcSolve Light in some legacy documentation or store materials.

1. What ArcSolve Translate Is

ArcSolve Translate is a lightweight PDF viewer and translation extension. It performs local PDF detection, renders PDFs with PDF.js, extracts PDF text in the browser, and sends text to Google Translate only when the user explicitly requests translation.

It is not a general web page reader, account-based ArcSolve client, or browser automation extension.

2. Why Careful Use Matters

PDFs can contain confidential, copyrighted, medical, legal, financial, employment, or academic information. Translation services can also produce incomplete or incorrect translations, especially for technical terms, tables, scanned documents, or complex layouts.

Users should review PDF content before translating it and verify important translations against the original document.

Use ArcSolve Translate with the following practices:

  • Translate only documents you are comfortable sending to Google Translate.
  • Avoid translating confidential, regulated, or sensitive documents unless necessary.
  • Review translated output before relying on it.
  • Compare important sections with the original PDF.
  • Be cautious with scanned PDFs, tables, citations, equations, and legal or medical terminology.
  • Restrict site access in Chrome if PDF detection should run only on specific sites.

4. What ArcSolve Translate Does Not Do

ArcSolve Translate does not operate in the following ways:

  • It does not collect browsing history.
  • It does not read full page text unrelated to PDF detection.
  • It does not require user accounts.
  • It does not collect analytics or telemetry.
  • It does not use user content to train AI models.
  • It does not send PDF text to Google Translate unless the user requests translation.
  • It does not automate browser actions.
  • It does not save PDFs or translations as long-term local records.

5. Translation Limits

Machine translation may be inaccurate or incomplete. It may fail to preserve:

  • Legal meaning
  • Medical meaning
  • Academic nuance
  • Mathematical notation
  • Tables and figure labels
  • Citations and footnotes
  • Layout-dependent meaning

Users should not rely on translated output as the sole basis for high-impact decisions.

6. User Controls

Users can reduce risk by:

  • Not using translation on sensitive documents.
  • Restricting site access in Chrome.
  • Closing the browser to clear session-scoped cache.
  • Disabling or removing the extension when not needed.

8. Summary

ArcSolve Translate is designed for lightweight PDF viewing and user-requested translation. It performs PDF detection and viewing locally, sends text to Google Translate only when translation is requested, and stores only session-scoped cache data. Use it carefully with sensitive or high-impact documents.

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