I recently posted about how to translate German books. Today I saw a post on the "German genealogy & cultural history" Facebook groupabout how to translate from Newspapers.com. I wanted to know, too, so I figured out a solution. It’s pretty simple. Find an article you would like to translate on Newspapers.com. Click on the “Clip” icon above the newspaper page and draw a box around the article you want to translate. After you’ve selected your text, click on the blue “Clip”. A window will pop-up prompting you to “Share” or “View Clipping”. Click on “View Clipping”. That will revise the view to show only the clipped portion. Notice underneath the article the words “Show article text (OCR)”. Click on that. Voila! the text magically appears. It is not perfect. I’m sure there are errors in this text. I can see an “i”, possibly because my clipping included the vertical lines on the left and right of the article. There could be other glitches, as there often are with Optical Character Recognition (OCR), depending on the quality of the image, but at least I have something. Now I can copy the transliterated text and paste it into GoogleTranslate. , GoogleTranslate is not perfect, either, but hopefully I can get the gist of the clipped article. If I want a better translation I can hire a translator to translate the original article. Pretty quickly I was able to be able to roughly “read” this foreign language article. What foreign language newspaper are you going to search first?
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AuthorMary Kircher Roddy is a genealogist, writer and lecturer, always looking for the story. Her blog is a combination of the stories she has found and the tools she used to find them. Archives
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