translating German PDF to English ?

[Bowtienutz]

Is there a way to translate a German PDF to English ?

I found some PDF files of “modell fan” magazine with some truck articles but have found no software available that does a translation.

[Agent G]

Google "german to english translation" and you will find a couple of free sites. You may be able to copy and paste entire pages into the text box.

Here's two right off the bat.

http://translation.babylon.com/german/to-english/#

http://translate.google.com/#

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[Harry P.]

Sehr gut, G.

[Bowtienutz]

PDF files are too large to work with any of those any other ideas.

[sportandmiah]

Download a translator app for your smart phone. You can take a picture of the page and it can translate it for you. I use it for Chinese all the time.

[sjordan2]

PDF files are too large to work with any of those any other ideas.

However, you can copy and paste several lines of copy at a time from the PDF into the translator. Just have a text file open and copy the translation back into it. Then repeat, repeat, repeat with the remaining copy. This is the way I've done it with long articles.

Chances are high, however, that the online translator will be pretty sketchy in its accuracy.

Another angle:

http://www.ehow.com/...an-english.html

Have you got a link to the article you want to translate? Sometimes they can be copied, sometimes they can't.

Edited December 21, 2011 by sjordan2