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Title: Amazing translation resource
Post by: dolcevita on July 12, 2017, 08:27:27 AM
I have the Google translate app on my phone and I find it very useful.  However, I've just been reading a review of a Dutch sewing/pattern magazine, Knip Mode, and the writer mentioned a fabulous thing that the app does.  Apparently, you can take a photo and bring it into the app (I haven't looked at the detail yet), highlight any text in the photo that you want to translate and, hey presto, there it is.  She used it to translate the sewing instructions in the magazine from Dutch to English with no typing required.  Amazing.

I can understand why people turn into smart phone zombies with stuff like this on it!
Title: Re: Amazing translation resource
Post by: Swisslass on July 12, 2017, 11:49:15 AM
Hub has it on his phone and uses it quite a lot, because once it's translated (instructions mainly) he can capture it as a photo and then enlarge it to make it readable!
Title: Re: Amazing translation resource
Post by: Sewingsue on July 12, 2017, 12:17:45 PM
I have the Google translate app on my phone and I find it very useful.  However, I've just been reading a review of a Dutch sewing/pattern magazine, Knip Mode, and the writer mentioned a fabulous thing that the app does.  Apparently, you can take a photo and bring it into the app (I haven't looked at the detail yet), highlight any text in the photo that you want to translate and, hey presto, there it is.  She used it to translate the sewing instructions in the magazine from Dutch to English with no typing required.  Amazing.

I can understand why people turn into smart phone zombies with stuff like this on it!
I know all those words are in English and, individually, I recognise them.
Collectively? Not so much  :S

OK I could probably work out how to do most of it on a PC - with a mouse - eventually.
But on my phone?
That tiny screen?

Old woman retires from modern world  :D
Title: Re: Amazing translation resource
Post by: UttaRetch on July 12, 2017, 21:36:20 PM
Nothing is worth viewing on a tiny mobile phone screen.  0_0
Title: Re: Amazing translation resource
Post by: b15erk on July 13, 2017, 11:08:46 AM
I could have done with this last week.  DD was translating a knitting pattern into French for a friend, but she is no knitter, so she called me - who has little French, but I can knit.  What a job!

What was this urgent commision?  A dolly's cardigan!!  Some friends are just - well just beyond anything! Grrrr.

Jessie
Title: Re: Amazing translation resource
Post by: Francesca on July 13, 2017, 17:06:41 PM
It's actually one better than taking a photo. You can merely hover the app over the text and it will change before your eyes. I've used it before in shops and such when abroad. Just used my phone camera to ready signs, labels, food packets etc by hovering the camera and looking through the screen.
Title: Re: Amazing translation resource
Post by: Acorn on July 13, 2017, 20:00:34 PM
Magic!   :o
Title: Re: Amazing translation resource
Post by: Ohsewsimple on July 13, 2017, 20:40:59 PM
Oooh will have to check that out.  I have copied and pasted before.  But that sounds easier.  It doesn't always translate properly but I can often get the gist.