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# Introduction {#introduction}

Welcome to the AT4J docs! 👋

This documentation will help you to get started with your first Azure Translator implementation as fast as possible.

## What is the purpose of the AT4J library? {#purpose}

The AT4J library is a Java wrapper for the Azure Translator API
Using Java classes for its API like CompletableFuture for async
requests
and Optional for return types which may be `null`.
It provides a simple and easy-to-use interface to interact with the Azure Translator API,
allowing you to translate text between languages.

## What is the Azure Translator? {#azure-translator}

The Azure Translator,
provided by Microsoft, is a cloud-based machine translation service that is part of the Microsoft Azure cloud services.
It offers a set of APIs that allow for text translation between languages and language detection of a given text,
among other features.