New to me: Google Translate now works on foreign-language PDFs. Perhaps it’s been available for a while, but I’ve seen no-one blogging about it.<\/p>\n
It doesn’t work if you just right-click on the Web link to the PDF in, say, Google Scholar or JURN search results, and then select “Translate this page…”. <\/p>\n
Instead you have to:<\/p>\n
1) Right-click, and copy to the clipboard the direct<\/em> PDF link. Very useful, and I had excellent results with a Polish article I tested. I had the whole article translated, too, not just the first few paragraphs. Longer items such as a PhD thesis<\/a> will be refused as “too long”.<\/p>\n Note that a ‘redirect URL’, which gives the PDF but hides the direct URL link to the PDF, is of no use in the above workflow.<\/p>\n Sadly I guess it’s also a route to plagiarism for students. I’d suggest that the anti-plagiarism detector-bot services might usefully build a bank of Google-translated theses and dissertations, to add to their phrase-detection sources. Teachers who mark suspiciously-excellent final dissertations, and who are then inclined ‘to go on the hunt’, should also be aware of the possibility that the lacklustre student may have run a foreign dissertation through Google Translate and then lightly re-written it for clarity in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New to me: Google Translate now works on foreign-language PDFs. Perhaps it’s been available for a while, but I’ve seen …<\/p>\n
\n2) Visit Google Translate<\/a>, manually paste in the URL you just copied.
\n3) Click on the URL that appears over in the facing box.
\n4) The PDF text appears extracted, in the form of a Web page, and translated.<\/p>\n