Translate a PDF from English to French.
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glubzorg Posted messages 1 Status Membre -
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Hello, I would like to translate a PDF file that is in English into French; is there any free software to do this?
Thank you
Thank you
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To translate a PDF document from English to French that is over 300 pages long and keep the images, it's a bit lengthy but it's great! and free:
First, you need to convert the PDF to Word using, for example, the demo version of a PDF to Word converter.
Open this file with OpenOffice, then go to File/send/create an HTML document in a new folder and give the file a recognizable name.
OpenOffice will create a multitude of files, images, and HTML pages in the new folder; all you have to do is find the file with the correct name (it's the one without a number) and open it with Mozilla.
In Mozilla, the images and texts are there but in English, after installing the Google Toolbar (https://www.google.com/intl/fr/toolbar/ff/), you click on the "translate" tool in the toolbar to see our document appear in French.
This operation has the advantage of not losing the images and being able to import larger files into Google Translate because we have done some of the work by converting the images and texts to HTML ourselves.
To save this translated document, you can, for example, print it with a virtual printer to PDF using Pdf Creator. So, from the Google translation in Mozilla, go to File/print.
There might be simpler ways but this works very well.
First, you need to convert the PDF to Word using, for example, the demo version of a PDF to Word converter.
Open this file with OpenOffice, then go to File/send/create an HTML document in a new folder and give the file a recognizable name.
OpenOffice will create a multitude of files, images, and HTML pages in the new folder; all you have to do is find the file with the correct name (it's the one without a number) and open it with Mozilla.
In Mozilla, the images and texts are there but in English, after installing the Google Toolbar (https://www.google.com/intl/fr/toolbar/ff/), you click on the "translate" tool in the toolbar to see our document appear in French.
This operation has the advantage of not losing the images and being able to import larger files into Google Translate because we have done some of the work by converting the images and texts to HTML ourselves.
To save this translated document, you can, for example, print it with a virtual printer to PDF using Pdf Creator. So, from the Google translation in Mozilla, go to File/print.
There might be simpler ways but this works very well.
I will keep you informed.