From: Edward Johnson (radar9999_at_aol.com)
Date: Tue Apr 05 2005 - 22:15:23 PDT
If you have a MAC with OS-X there is a menu option under the=20
Application Menu , for example in Mail look under the "Mail" tab for=20
the Services menu and find the Translate menu. Note it must be=20
activated by purchasing a license ($5 USD). It is a machine translation=20
and may not be completely accurate with respect to context and meaning=20
or proper word choice. But it gets it mostly done so that someone only=20
has to proof read and adjust when necessary. It appears to be fairly =20
comprehensive. I have copied text into a textedit or word document,=20
selected all, then translated it to spanish for my better half, who=20
works as an English as a Second Language (ESL) Instructor. She says the=20
translations are close, but must be proof read to ensure that context=20
and punctuation are correct.
Ed Johnson
On Apr 5, 2005, at 4:20 PM, newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net wrote:
> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:14:44 -0400
> From: Victor Rehorst <victor_at_newtontalk.net>
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Documentations MP2x00 en Francais
>
> Sylvain Pilet wrote:
>> Pour le moment c'est l'etape de numerisation, ensuite dans
>> l'ordre :
>> Nettoyage des fichiers en vus d'une bonne reconnaissance OCR
>> OCR - Verifications et corrections
>> Export en txt
>> Mise en page sur QuarkXpress,
>> la mise en page sera exactement identique a celle d'Apple
>> (je risque bien d'avoir des problemes juridiques!)
>> Seule la couleur utilise sera differente
>> Creation d'un fichier PDF de chaque Volume.
>
> Sylvain, while it would be nice to OCR and then re-layout the manuals=20
> in
> french, it would be extremely time consuming to do so. If you have=20
> the time
> go ahead, but perhaps you could just scan them directly into Acrobat=20
> and then
> PDF it, skipping the OCR and layout? They wouldn't be searchable but=20
> at least
> we could distribute them digitally.
>
> [BabelFish french translation, probably unintelligable]
> Sylvain, alors qu'il ferait beau =E0 la OCRC et puis =E0 la re-disposition=
=20
> les
> manuels en fran=E7ais, il prendrait extr=EAmement du temps pour faire=20
> ainsi. Si
> vous faites avancer le temps, mais peut-=EAtre vous pourriez juste les=20
> balayer
> directement dans l'acrobate et puis le pdf il, sautant la OCR et la
> disposition ? Elles ne seraient pas rechercheables mais au moins nous
> pourrions les distribuer digitalement.
>
> --=20
> Victor Rehorst - victor_at_newtontalk.net - chuma_at_chuma.org
> NewtonTalk list administrator - http://www.newtontalk.net
> Will the last person to leave the platform please turn off the=20
> backlight?
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