How to copy Hebrew text in a PDF and paste in google translate #yizkorbooks


jswanson861@...
 

I would like to translate (even roughly) parts of a Yizkor book that is in Hebrew. I can access the book via the New York Public Library as a webpage or as a PDF document. I think the PDF was made from jpgs. I can copy the Hebrew text from the PDF, but when I paste it in google translate it looks like nonsense.  I tried to save the PDF as a Word doc, but most (but not all) of the Yizkor book pages were nonsense.

Is there a way to copy Hebrew text and have it remain as Hebrew text?

thanks, John
John C. Swanson
Historian


Max Heffler
 

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software has worked well for me. I use Readiris Pro but there others.

 

Max Heffler

Houston, TX

 

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I would like to translate (even roughly) parts of a Yizkor book that is in Hebrew. I can access the book via the New York Public Library as a webpage or as a PDF document. I think the PDF was made from jpgs. I can copy the Hebrew text from the PDF, but when I paste it in google translate it looks like nonsense.  I tried to save the PDF as a Word doc, but most (but not all) of the Yizkor book pages were nonsense.

Is there a way to copy Hebrew text and have it remain as Hebrew text?

thanks, John
John C. Swanson
Historian


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Max Heffler
Houston, TX
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Laurie Sosna
 

I did a web search for "translate pdf document from hebrew to english" (without the quotes)
These two might do what you want.

You will need to upload the pdf page into the web interface

Google Translate-Documents
Select the input and output languages, then upload the document.
https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=TT&sl=de&tl=en&op=docs

GroupDocs PDF translate
This link has the languages pre-set.
https://products.groupdocs.app/translation/pdf/hebrew-english

Good luck,
Laurie Sosna
San Francisco, CA


Ilene Wagner
 


-- The Yiddish Book Center has an ocr function to translate digital books, including Yiskor Books. An account is required,  but I believe it’s free.

 

https://ocr.yiddishbookcenter.org/accounts/login/


Ilene Wagner
Fultonville, NY
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gbhaber@...
 

You can convert the .pdf to a Word Document here:

https://smallpdf.com/pdf-to-word

Then copy and paste to Google Translate.

Grif Haber