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Offline Jolly Roger

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Translating printed text
« 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

Offline TonyKath

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Re: Translating printed text
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday, 13 January, 2016 @ 17:53:23 »
Excellent Roger.  Only thing how do you translate Googlish to English?!  :blink:

Tony