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.
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Jump to PostI found this while googeling. Might be something worth looking into
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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you made it too easy :)
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thats great! :)
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