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Copier Auto-Translates Japanese to English

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the hopefully-better-than-babelfish dept.

StCredZero writes "Wild. Fuji has created a photocopier that automatically translates documents from Japanese to English. That's pretty nuts. Apparently, the copier can figure out what sections are text, OCR the text, send it to a translation engine, and put the english back into place."

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  1. Marketing gimmick by clarkkent09 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What is so wild about it? So they took a scanner, OCR software, a translation engine and a printer and put them all in one box. Well actually not even that since it has to bee hooked up to a computer for the translation part. How about replacing the translation engine with a spell checker? Hooray, call the patent office, I just invented a photocopier that fixes the spelling on the documents!

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