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Subject:Make sense? From:"Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- OKWAY -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU> Date:Mon, 12 Dec 1994 07:54:35 -0600
MULTILINGUAL SCANNER
Now there's a scanner that can translate your document, too. Plus-Tek USA's
ScanFX uses a combination of a scanning device, optical character
recognition technology and translation software to translate English
documents into Spanish, French or German in under two minutes per page.
Plus-Tek officials describe it as "a document-imaging Swiss army knife."
The one drawback is that the documents are translated word-for-word, so the
grammar doesn't always make sense. (Information Week 12/12/94 p.74)
Don't you just hate when you finish that documentation in only 15 minutes
per page but it doesn't make sense. ;-)
Eric
