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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. It's the voluntary collaboration with a data tap.. by cheros · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is wild is that anyone with half a working braincell would use a photocopier in an office where a copy of every document is sent to an uncontrolled 3rd party for translation.

    Yeah, put that baby in the CEO's office..

    (not the mention the fact that there's a huge gap between mechanical translations and the subtleties of language only a skilled translator and/or native speaker has any hope of translating).

    So, IMHO cute idea, but don't expect me to bu one any time soon.

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