Thursday 13 March 2014

How To Do A French To English Old Document Translation

By Gwen Lowe


Translating foreign files to english is something that a lot of people would want to do simply because they would want to know what is inside. Of course French is one of the most widely translated languages. Now with technology, it is actually possible try a french to english old document translation.

Now there is a problem with this simply because if one would put in the raw file on to his computer and copy paste it on the internet, he might get an answer that is not accurate. This is especially true for French because there are a lot of different pronunciations in this language. That is why one has to make sure he inputs the correct pronunciation indications above the letters.

Now the first thing to do here is to turn on the computer and click the start button. From here, one has to check if the language in his computer is the standard United States version of English. This is done so that the document will be consistent with the file later on.

Now to check the default language, one has to first go to the search bar in the start button and type in the words intl.cpl. Once that is done, then one will now click on the tab that is called keyboards and languages and then now click on the change keyboards tab. Once that is done, then one has to now check the box that says United States English.

Now when one has done that, then the very next step would be to boot up the world file and start fixing the raw document. The thing about the French language is that there are so many special characters that would have a lot of pronunciation indicators. Now if his word processor does not support this, then he may search for these letters online.

After fixing all of those things, then one may already put the entire text on to the software. One of the best translation software in the internet would be Google Translate as it is the easiest to use and easily the most popular out of them all. All one has to do is to copy paste the entire text on to the space bar and just click the Translate button in order to get a full translation of the text that he submitted.

Now one has to be very wary about Google Translate because this program has to tendency to not give very accurate results. If one would want a very accurate result, then he should check out the other software out there that may be used for the process. The best ones to use would be the ones that are specifically for the French language because these ones are the accurate ones.

Because of the advance in technology these days, it is actually easier for people to now get a translation of old documents. Now one has to remember that one cannot always get a very accurate result. Now it is for this reason that some adjustments has to be done.




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