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Translating languages on a tablet

9 years ago

A friend has an app on his phone that will translate foreign language into English. I wonder if the B&N tablet that's coming out for $49 will do that. Or is there something even cheaper? I don't have/want/need a cell phone. This would be used for translating web pages that don't have a translate button for me to click. I use google translate for text but some of the German documents are poor quality and I can't read them enough to retype what they say. The app he used wasn't perfect but if it tells me some words and I know some words I should be able to get the gist of it.

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zep516
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
You can translate on line without any app.

http://www.athropolis.com/translate.htm

Firefox also has an extension called IMTranslator

I use it as I often get these types of log files when helping at the forums.

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Elmer J Fudd
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
I think she's saying she wants to translate text she has in image form but not in text form. That's a two step process -

1) Having an image with text on it.

2) Having software to do the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) processing.

Try looking at this link - apparently Google Docs can process image files (Jpg, etc) and pdf files. You need to present the software an image - either from a photo (hence, using a smartphone/tablet but also feasible with a camera) or a scanner made one of the text in question. Then, when the text has been recognized and processed into a text file, that you can copy/paste to Google Translate or any of the others.

How to OCR docs
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Original Author
9 years ago
Yes, I've been doing the ocr conversion and then running it through translate. Time consuming. And to translate web site pages is equally time consuming. His little thingy was so quick. Not 100% accurate but I can fill in the blanks.
Elmer J Fudd
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Your explanations aren't clear enough for me to understand what tasks you're trying to do.

If you're looking at non-English webpage, translation can be instantaneous. Simply copy the URL into the appropriate box of a Goggle Translate page and the webpage is reread, translated and displayed in the language of your choice. No need to use OCR.
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Original Author
9 years ago
Never mind. I don't know how else to explain it. google translate doesn't do images and running each web page through google translate is too time consuming. The phone app is perfect for what I need.
Elmer J Fudd
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Maybe my explanation wasn't clear, I explained above how to do it. Typing the web page address into the box on a Google Translate page will translate the entire website.

See below screenshot of Google Translate (translate.google.com). In the box where the red circle is type in the web address of the foreign language web page you want translated

As an example, type in:

www.faz.net (the German language website of the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper)

Then hit enter, you'll see the FA webpage in English.
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Original Author
9 years ago
I already do it like that. See my original question. You keep telling me how to do something I'm already doing. I'm not going to be back here after this post.
Elmer J Fudd
9 years ago
I read your posts carefully and spent some time trying to be helpful. Your questions were not clear.

You said you wanted to translate web pages and it was time consuming. With what I outlined, it's maybe 10 seconds per page. Nothing will be quicker than that.
acraftylady
9 years ago
I have a kindle fire so not sure about B&N but can you not get in their app store before you buy and see what app works with the tablet and what apps they have? I can see amazon apps from amazon.com without even owning a kindle. Mary

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