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Bob Pucci
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Westerly,RI
Registered: Jun 2003

posted November 11, 2019 05:23 PM

I have a bauer T510 and the manual is in German.Is there anyway you can download it and convert it into English since I can't find one in English.Thanks

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

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From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted November 11, 2019 06:18 PM

If you can get access to a pretty recent scanner, some of them can scan printed matter and convert it to text.

-now of course the text is still in German and the software may stumble on German special characters (ß,ä,ö,ü), but it's a step closer!

After that you can copy and paste into an online translator: they are actually pretty decent these days.

-and if you are intrepid, you can just type it in yourself! I use Google translate and it lets you substitute "ss" for "ß" and typing "a,o,u" works in place of "ä,ö,ü" at least most of the time. (For example: "schön" and "schon" are not the same word.)

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Larry Arpin
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From: Sunland, CA, USA
Registered: Dec 2006

posted November 12, 2019 11:43 AM

I use Google translate app on my phone all the time. It's free. There is a camera button in the app and just press the button and it will scam the text. It's not perfect but pretty darn close.

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

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From: Long Island, NY, USA
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posted November 12, 2019 12:00 PM

Interesting!

I've never tried the phone app!

The "Universal Translator" was just some funky idea the Star Trek Folk came up with to explain why everybody in the Universe cold speak English, but in our own time we're edging closer and closer.

(-and they invented the Transporter because ship-based away missions were more expensive to film. Who knows what great technologies we will have someday because Gene Roddenberry had a budget to keep!)

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Brian Fretwell
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: London, UK
Registered: Jun 2014

posted November 12, 2019 01:07 PM

There used to be another on-line translator named after the Babelfish which was in the Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. It was a fish galactic hitch hikers put in their ears to translate for them.

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