Run large-scale asynchronous document/text translation jobs from Cloud Storage using Cloud Translation v3 BatchTranslateText / BatchTranslateDocument
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Steps
Stage source files in a GCS input bucket and create/confirm write access to a separate output bucket
Grant the Cloud Translation API's service agent the necessary Storage IAM roles on both buckets
Call projects.locations.batchTranslateText (plain text/HTML/etc.) or batchTranslateDocument (DOCX/PDF/PPTX) with source/target language lists, input/output GCS URIs, and optional glossaries
Poll the returned long-running operation name until done, then read translated output files and any error/glossary-application reports from the output bucket
Re-run only failed files by pointing a new batch job at a narrower input prefix rather than reprocessing the entire batch
Known gotchas
Batch translate is region-scoped and asynchronous — there is no synchronous response with translated text, only an operation to poll and files written to GCS
Missing IAM permissions on the output bucket for the Translation service agent is the most common silent-failure cause (job completes with errors written to a report file, not thrown back to the caller)
Batch jobs bill per character like standard v3 calls, so large corpora should be de-duplicated before submission to avoid re-billing repeated content
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