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Hey all, quick non-programming post here about how to quickly translate a PDF doc with formatting from google translate (and keep most of the formatting).
Specifically, I wanted to translate a manual for a professional oven to Greek. My example though will use a preliminary version of my MSc thesis:
http://www.aitdspace.gr/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/273/MBAKOPOULOS_thesis_final_.pdf?sequence=1
Google translate supports uploading documents via the translate a document link, but the result is not always very good with formatting.
Fellow colleague N Katsarakis, proposed the solution to convert the PDF to HTML, and then run through translate which produced the following workflow
1) Convert to HTML with a converter (e.g. online if not sensitive information, or acrobat professional).
2) Place in dropbox public folder, and copy the public link.
3) Place public link in google translate, and print as PDF.
Please find the result (HERE) is from the converted (HTML) that was converted from the (PDF) .
Ofcourse, the program to make the conversion to HTML plays a large part in how much formatting is kept.
For quick and dirty rough translations it’s not that bad.
Mr. Menelaos Bakopoulos is currently pursuing his PhD both at Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTiF) at Aalborg University (AAU) in Denmark and Athens Information Technology (AIT) in Athens, Greece. He received a Master in Information Technology and Telecommunications Systems from Athens Information Technology and a B.Sc. in Computer Science & Management Information Systems from the American College of Thessaloniki. Since April 2008 he has been a member of the Multimedia, Knowledge, and Web Technologies Group.
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Oct 15 2012
Quick and dirty PDF translation using Dropbox, and Google Translate
Hey all, quick non-programming post here about how to quickly translate a PDF doc with formatting from google translate (and keep most of the formatting).
Specifically, I wanted to translate a manual for a professional oven to Greek. My example though will use a preliminary version of my MSc thesis:
http://www.aitdspace.gr/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/273/MBAKOPOULOS_thesis_final_.pdf?sequence=1
Google translate supports uploading documents via the translate a document link, but the result is not always very good with formatting.
Fellow colleague N Katsarakis, proposed the solution to convert the PDF to HTML, and then run through translate which produced the following workflow
1) Convert to HTML with a converter (e.g. online if not sensitive information, or acrobat professional).
2) Place in dropbox public folder, and copy the public link.
3) Place public link in google translate, and print as PDF.
Please find the result (HERE) is from the converted (HTML) that was converted from the (PDF) .
Ofcourse, the program to make the conversion to HTML plays a large part in how much formatting is kept.
For quick and dirty rough translations it’s not that bad.
Menelaos Bakopoulos
Mr. Menelaos Bakopoulos is currently pursuing his PhD both at Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTiF) at Aalborg University (AAU) in Denmark and Athens Information Technology (AIT) in Athens, Greece. He received a Master in Information Technology and Telecommunications Systems from Athens Information Technology and a B.Sc. in Computer Science & Management Information Systems from the American College of Thessaloniki. Since April 2008 he has been a member of the Multimedia, Knowledge, and Web Technologies Group.
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