I have a growing penchant for European clocks, especially the older (<1740) ones. I try to do research on what I find, but most of the books/magazines/articles are in languages other than English. A few times I've spent hours manually translating portions via Google translations. This is hard on the eyes and fingers. And occasionally there is a chuckle at the translation of certain horological terms. Commercial translation services are beyond my budget (2 or 3 pages = $400, etc).
Has anyone found a decent translation software package that takes scanned or copied text in one language and spits it out in English? I think this falls under the OCR capability (optical character recognition).
Or, is there a better way outside of OCR?
Jim
Has anyone found a decent translation software package that takes scanned or copied text in one language and spits it out in English? I think this falls under the OCR capability (optical character recognition).
Or, is there a better way outside of OCR?
Jim