Translating docs

General Discussion
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Hi ( could not find computer section )



I want to translate a French doc to English.


I am using google translate.The doc is too detailed to type,so i tried the other option ( upload ) the doc.When i try this ,i get the message ,not possible due to ( application/octet-stream ). Is there a way round this to get it to translate the doc.



Regards


Bill.



Ps Even if i try to upload a plain piece of paper,which i have scribbled on,i get the same message.

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Check to see whether you have ABBYY FineReader installed on your computer. If not, check the CD that came with your printer

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iIt is a printer/scanner Epson sx438w,about 4 yrs old.

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Did your scanner come with any OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software ? That would let you scan the text into a Word file (for example) from which you could cut and paste into Google Translate.

An alternative would be to ask RSI to email you the letter as a pdf file. Mind you getting the RSI to do anything is a challenge.

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Thanks for the link,but it is too deep for me.

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Many thanks for the offers to translate,i can probably get it translated.I just wondered whether or not there was a way of doing it from my own computer and scanner.It is a letter that came from RSI,which has too much content to do by typing.

Thanks again for your offers.

Bill

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Have a look at:-

http://support.dataviz.com/support.srch?docid=1313

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if it's not too long email it to me and I'll translate it for you

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If you have the original files (Word ?), can you not just cut and paste the text into Google Translate , if necessary one section at a time ?

Am not a fan of machine translation but it can give you an idea of what the original text was about

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If you need help let me know, I'll translate it for you :)