Someone asked me to code a program that translates French-language PDF files to English, and I thought that maybe I could convert the PDF files to Word documents or some other text document with a program I coded in C++, and then translate the text using Python's xgoogle library. Is programming this indirect translation process even feasible, and if so, how do I go about doing it? Thank you for your reply in advance.
jamd200 0 Newbie Poster
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Jump to PostYou could use this PDF to Word converter program.
Jump to PostIf under Linux, you can use the "pdftotext" command (from package "poppler-utils"). Then, you can use "libtranslate-bin" package to install a text translator program and use it with "translate-bin" command. So, your problem can be entirely solved by:
$ pdftotext my_file.pdf my_file.txt $ translate-bin -s google -f …
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If under Linux, you can use the "pdftotext" command (from package "poppler-utils"). Then, you can use "libtranslate-bin" package to install a text translator program and use it with "translate-bin" command. So, your problem can be entirely solved by:
$ pdftotext my_file.pdf my_file.txt
$ translate-bin -s google -f en -t fr my_file.txt > mon_fichier.txtYou only need to wrap these two calls in a shell, and you are done.
Ancient Dragon commented: you made it too easy :) +17
alwaysLearning0 commented: thats great! :) +3
jamd200 0 Newbie Poster
Thank you for your replies:
@Nathan Hopefully this library can suffice.
@Dragon He wants me to code it; in other words, he's discouraging me from using already-made software, but maybe I can convince him to use this, then use the translation feature in Word.
@mike That would be very useful, but unfortunately, we're using Windows V_V.
mike_2000_17 2,669 21st Century Viking Team Colleague Featured Poster
>>but unfortunately, we're using Windows V_V.
If I had a dime for everytime I heard that...
You can actually get pdftotext for Windows as well.
And libtranslate is an open-source library, so you can try to either port it to windows or just grab the relevant parts of the source code.
jamd200 0 Newbie Poster
>>but unfortunately, we're using Windows V_V.
If I had a dime for everytime I heard that...
You can actually get pdftotext for Windows as well.
And libtranslate is an open-source library, so you can try to either port it to windows or just grab the relevant parts of the source code.
I am really grateful for your help. Hope things work out for me with this little project.
zarfishan 0 Newbie Poster
You can use this converter Saaspose.PDF itsa cloud API that use C++ language to convert PDF to Text file.
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