The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 19, May 5, 2002, Article 10

TRANSLATING GERMAN NUMISMATIC LITERATURE

  Steve Pellegrini writes: "As a collector interested in Historic,
  Commemorative & Art medals I have necessarily accumulated
  almost as many books about medals as I have actual medals.
  Most of the texts for these series' are European - and much
  of the most interesting and useful material is written in German
   - a language I can't read.

  My question to my brother and sister Numismaniacs is this:
  is anyone aware of a 'Mechanical  Translation' software
  program which is OCR capable?  My thought being to scan
  pages from German books into an OCR capable 'MT'
  program. The OCR technology will turn the plain German
  text into coded text which can then be 'read' by the MT
  software. The MT will then translate the German into
  'gisted' English. -- Any enlightenment on this subject you
  can provide me will be sincerely appreciated. Subscribers
  can email me at ginocatt@Portland1.com.

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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