vendredi 24 mars 2017

Translate PDF and keep pictures

Some of the pdf instructions for a model are in a language other than your native tongue and can be difficult to understand. In some cases the instruction have pictures accompaning the text that help in understanding what to do. You can usually copy the text and get it translated, but you have no pictures to go along.
Here is a way to generate a translated page and keep the pictures associated with the text. Looks like you need to use the Chrome browser.

RavinZ Blog: Translating the language of PDF documents while preserving formatting
The instruction there say translate to English but the translation might depend on what the native language is you have selected in Chrome for Google Translate .

There is a link to this page:

http://ift.tt/2nvMVBT

It limits your conversions if you do not register. There is a free registration so you can convert what looks like 25 files but if you want to do more conversions than that you need to pay a fee.

Once you open the generated html document in Chrome and translate it you can then print to pdf or whatever you want. Make sure you scroll to each page to get the entire document translated and make sure you choose a page size to match so you don't get weird page breaks.

As an example I have used it to translate the German intructions from this page wediul.de - Ausschneidebögen Ruine Maria Hilf bei Mühlheim/Donau (M 1:160 - N) to English and save it as a pdf. You mouse over Anleitung and check at the lower left to make sure the link is a pdf then right click and Save Link Location to copy the URL. You then paste that into the appropriate location on the Cloud Convert page.

You still do get some weird translations, though. You could try saving it as a word processor document and try for a better translation.
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