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Title: Translating printed text
Post by: Jolly Roger on Wednesday, 13 January, 2016 @ 17:09:04

I needed to translate a German printed document  (7 pages) to English and it took some time and effort to do this, so I thought it would be useful to share. Translation software will not recognise a scanned page of text, so you need to be able to convert it to a Word file.
Here's how.

• Scan your document to a PDF file and save
• Go to an online OCR conversion http://www.onlineocr.net/default.aspx
• Click Convert and download the output file, which opens as a Word document and save
• Go to Google Translate https://translate.google.com/ and browse for your .docx file
• Enter input and output languages and Translate
• Copy result and paste to a new Word file

Title: Re: Translating printed text
Post by: TonyKath on Wednesday, 13 January, 2016 @ 17:53:23

Excellent Roger.  Only thing how do you translate Googlish to English?!  :blink:

Tony