Andy, I am bilingual and have seen the results of automated
translations. As I said, if you just want to get an idea about the
contents of a document, a translation program might help you but it
will never give you a rendition that comes even close to the original
you are translating.
As for accuracy of scanned material, you will always have a few
errors regardless of what language the text to be scanned and ocr-ed
is in. However, if you take a program that is designed to scan texts
in different languages and allows you to choose the recognition
language such as FineReader, you will get fairly good results. In my
opinion, if you want to run a text thru a translation program, the
problem will not be the accuracy of the scan primarily (as long as
you set your ocr program to use the appropriate recognition language)
but rather the translation software.
I scan books in both German and English and find that I can throw
almost anything at Finereader and get very acceptable results that
need only a minimum of editing - or if i just want them for my own
reading pleasure, don't really require any editing.
so if you have a scanner available and an state-of-the-art ocr
package that is equipped to recognize foreign language texts, then
just run your book thru ocr. You can always download a free demo of
Finereader from
www.abbyy.com
Good luck and have fun!
Doris
Doris - I believe German to English gets quite good results. However, somebody told us that scanned material won't work with translation programmes, and that it has to be typed in, and I'm not sure if this information is correct.
Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chipmunks" <chipmunks@xxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 11:15 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Language translation
I very strongly advise against the use of a translation program if you want serious results. Translation programs have gotten better and might give you the gist of a translated document but they also very often produce very entertaining but not very usable results.
So if you just want to find out what the book is about, a translation program might be a start but if you want to actually read and appreciate the book's content, I'd advice getting out your dictionary etc and doing the translation manually.
hth
Doris
At 07:32 PM 10/23/2005 +0100, you wrote:Hi all -
I have a book in German, that I wish to translate in to English, anybody suggest the best way to do this? Is it possible to scan it in, and then use some translation tool to get it in to English?
Andy
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