5 votes

Web application for recognizing Russian cursive

The short answer - you will be better off finding a human translator. Here is a long answer. Your task has two parts. Convert handwritten Russian into a computer text in Russian. Translate text from ...
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4 votes
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Manage iOS and Android app localization/translation

I did some (re)search and came up with the following tools below (sorted by Alexa rating). I will pick five or so and do a little test project with them to see which one works best for my situation. ...
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3 votes

An open source PDF reader with built in dictionary or plugins?

I found a tutorial of adding a real-time google translation button for pdf-xchange editor. Although pdf-xchange editor is not open source software, but I think it is a good hint for other pdf viewers. ...
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3 votes

Word translation tool with mouse click?

1. Choice QTranslate — is my choice. 2. Demonstration 3. Some features Free; Active development; Auto-detect languages for translation support; Support 9 translation services. User may select ...
3 votes

Offline English-German dictionary for Android

May I recommend my favorite dictionary app to you: ColorDict Dictionary. First, how it meets your requirements: Android: Sure. Gratis: Yes. Offline: Yes, but also supports Online lookups complete ...
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3 votes

Translation manager

One main difference between translation management and localization management tools is how existing translations are reused. Translation management tools come with a Translation Memory, a database of ...
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2 votes
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Japanese/English speech translator

I think I found it out myself: it is NTT DOCOMO JSpeak. Available for iOS and Android. Free for five uses then you have to pay for a time-based subscription (1 week, 2 weeks etc.) Important notice: ...
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2 votes

Offline English-German dictionary for Android

Offline dictionaries requirements free offline (must download dictionary packs first) can customize where the dictionaries are saved bonus very powerful dictionaries/thesaurus available many ...
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2 votes

An open source PDF reader with built in dictionary or plugins?

A solution other than a specific PDF reader is to use an external program such as GoldenDict. It features a so-called ”Scan Popup“: Each time you select a word in any program—e.g. in your favourite ...
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2 votes
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Desktop version of/front-end to Google Translate

The Google Translate website allows you to upload documents as well as typing in text, you could also run an Android emulator and run the android app to translate images of the manual pages
2 votes

A browser and maybe an extension to translate websites

Chrome has an in-built translator. You just right-click on a page and choose Translate to English. You can change the preferred language from the three dots at the top right after you click that ...
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Alternative for googletrans module in Python

if you write python script to translate each file one by one (or divide large file into smaller files). If you can't do it in one go, do it in multiple smaller, and the bulk request....... Just ...
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1 vote

Python library for Arabic transliteration, that transliterates to only a-z letters without accents or symbols

You can find the current ASCII-based Arabic transliteration methods here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Arabic#ASCII-based None of them does what you are asking for. Are you sure there ...
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Offline Android translation app - which you have actually used

Your friend could use the Google Translate app and download the offline files. To do this: Within the Translate app, open the menu Press 'Settings' Press 'Data usage' Press 'Download offline ...
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1 vote

Is there some program to speak on the micropohone and get the recognized text along with a translation to other language

Just for the record I'll post the solution I found so far: Add the Voice In Voice Typing extension to Chrome Goto to DeepL online translator that's it I couldn't find a way to make punctuation ...
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Is there some program to speak on the micropohone and get the recognized text along with a translation to other language

Can't you see the microphone icon in Google Translator? I can easily speak my texts in both desktop and mobile after clicking that icon. You could also use a browser add-on like "Speech ...
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Community plattform to translate free or open source software

There seem to be a number of communities springing up around OpenTranslators, which seems more like matchmaking than anything else. http://opentranslators.org/ However, I've had experience with the ...
1 vote
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Offline English-German dictionary for Android

You can give Google Translate a go, available on Play Store and is totally free. Once installed, you can follow instructions from the official guide: Choose and download languages Make ...
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1 vote

Software for active reading

Three alternatives that might fulfil your expectations: Docear (discontinued) Zotero Mendalay Some time ago Docear staff made a blog post with a comparison of the above. It can help you to decide ...
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1 vote

Translator software

You can try MacLinguist, it basically does what you asked: you select a chunk of text in any application, double-press Control and have the translation pop up (you can also replace currently selected ...
1 vote

Translator software

As no better answers have been put forward I'll suggest good old Google translate, if non copyable text is what you need to translate, Google translate can translate from pictures so you could ...
1 vote

Book Translator

As a translation scholar, I feel puzzled by your wish for a piece of software to read books about subjects as deep as the ones you've mentioned in other languages. Please refer to this video: https:/...
1 vote

Vocabulary building browser extension

Rememberry seems quite good (for learning foreign languages). It allows you to save new words as flash cards that you can study later (and that in different modes, either they flash you the card and ...
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1 vote

Is there an online service which translates text from English to 'Hinglish'?

Google Translate is actually capable of this. For higher quality translation, you are, of course, going to need to hire a professional translator.
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A Chrome extension to translate text while writing?

The Google Translate plugin can do this. UPDATE (v.2.0): Now you can highlight or right-click a text and translate it vs. translate the entire page. You can also change extension options to ...
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Versioning system for translations

Drupal (which is a free/libre CMS) can do this, without needing any contributed modules or custom code. I’m not saying that this is the best solution for the job (in fact, I’m sure this lacks many ...
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