I need help finding some sort of machine translation software (WinXP) that is free (or else very, very, very cheap) that works for the following languages: Arabic, Hindi, and Latin -- but in PDFs. More than one software/website is fine and there are all sorts of details inside.
I've been working on trying to find something that will help us at work be able to identify articles that we have to locate in different languages. All computers run Windows XP.
The languages I've been using to test things are: Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.
I've tested the following programs/websites: Google Translate, Lingoes, World Lingo, Translate.net, Babylon, ImTrans, Systran Box, Quick Latin, and Itranslator 2003. (I've checked out Foreign Word too.)
What seems to be making things difficult is the fact that my documents are PDFs. I've been using OCR Terminal to work with the PDFs and get them into a form where I can copy and paste the text and that has been working. (This also has the handy side effect of putting them in Word docs too, but I'd prefer to leave the files as PDFs.)
The question: Are there some other services out there that I'm completely overlooking? The three languages I've had pretty much zero luck with have been Arabic, Hindi, and Latin. As I've said before, free is better, but super cheap is okay too. Bonus points for programs/sites that are easy to use and will accept PDFs. Thanks in advance!
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posted by No-sword at 3:56 PM on May 18