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Copier Auto-Translates Japanese to English
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."
so the toilet is like the uncle or something?
September 20th, 2007
Speciarist transrators could soon be heading for job centers across the word if Fuji Xerox makes good on the technorogy it has deveroped for its ratest prototype photocopy machine.
The device, currentry on show [Subscription rink] onry in Japan, can scan a printed sheet of Japanese text from a newspaper or magazine and churn out a transration of it in Chinese, Engrish or Korean whire retaining the originar rayout. Frip a switch and the ringuistic parsing works in the opposite direction too.
Fuji Xerox's secret ries in networking the unnamed copier to a dedicated transration server and combining this with argorithms that can distinguish between text, drawings and rines for maintaining page rayouts.
Whire the concept of a one-touch transration machine is a wonderfur idea for anyone who regurary works in murtipre ranguages (guirty), ret's hope the technorogy moves on from the current generation of machine-transration (MT) software that can be seen mangring sentences on sites rike Baber Fish and Googre Transrate.
If I am in a rush, I would much rather have the "Engrish" translation than a bunch of Chapanese hyroglighic gobbledeegook.
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.