Me being Computer illiterate I was wondering if it was possible to set up some kind of Template to use google translate to translate these owners' manuals PDFs that are not in English, eg SFC twin and Atlas models. I have had this pop up on occasions with zero input from me, is there a way to do this easily.
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- Thread starter Vince
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Just use an online translator and copy and paste the text.
Otherwise, I learnt Italian, the manuals being an introduction, bit by bit.
Paul
Hi Vince If you can cut and paste text, then try deepl. I find it works better than google translate.
They offer up a an image file translator (PDF, JPG, etc) but I have never tried that, so can't comment if that bit works or not.
They offer up a an image file translator (PDF, JPG, etc) but I have never tried that, so can't comment if that bit works or not.
Dellortoman
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Image translator eh? Translates an image of a French Poodle into a British bulldog.
breganzane
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On android, google lens will do what you want Vincenzo. Just point your camera at the page and it will detect and translate and you can save the photo ('share' option, save to your google drive and download from there is the easiest for me). Here's an example looking at a page in Italian from the Laverda 1947-97 book:
Lens is dead scary really. Point it at anything and it'll identify what it is and search it for you, finding matches from online shopping sites and the like. Noticed just now it now has a 'homework' mode - point it at the homework question and it will answer it for you! FFS There is no hope for the youth.
Anyhow, in the mean time, excellent for translating manuals and the like. There is also an amazing 'scanner' mode built into Google drive, with only a small amount of arrangement of lighting it will take a photo, detect the edges, correct for rotation and skew and save it as a pdf or whatever for you. Bloody handy.
Accessing all these things will vary depending on your phone, you may need to install google lens from the playstore. If you've got apple then I don't know but presume there will be an equivalent.
Lens is dead scary really. Point it at anything and it'll identify what it is and search it for you, finding matches from online shopping sites and the like. Noticed just now it now has a 'homework' mode - point it at the homework question and it will answer it for you! FFS There is no hope for the youth.
Anyhow, in the mean time, excellent for translating manuals and the like. There is also an amazing 'scanner' mode built into Google drive, with only a small amount of arrangement of lighting it will take a photo, detect the edges, correct for rotation and skew and save it as a pdf or whatever for you. Bloody handy.
Accessing all these things will vary depending on your phone, you may need to install google lens from the playstore. If you've got apple then I don't know but presume there will be an equivalent.
breganzane
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PS I tried using google translate to translate a file (more in line with your question) which was a scanned pdf of a manual. There are a few limits; firstly a 10mb file size limit, so only a few pages at a time. Secondly it doesn't work on a scanned image, only on raw text, so you'd have to run it through an OCR procedure first. The outcome of OCR + translation might be quite entertaining but maybe not very useful.