Leonard Rosenthol
Thu, 15 May 2008 04:45:21 -0700
If you have the legal rights to translate the book, you should just get teh original source material from the author and translate it there. Leonard On May 15, 2008, at 3:51 AM, Bruno Lowagie wrote: > 金健康 wrote: >> Can iText meet my idear? >> >> 1.Supposed I have an ebook(book_en.pdf) in English. > > Consider this PDF to be like a vector image. > (This is an ASSUMPTION based on an educated guess.) > >> 2.Parse book_en.pdf : > > You can parse the file structure of a PDF and discover PDF objects > such as null, boolean, number, string, name, array, dictionary, > stream. > And you can parse content streams that consist of operators and > operands (the Adobe Imaging Model). > >> 2.1 Export a paragraph or a phrase, tanslate to Chinese, and >> rewrite >> to book_zh.pdf; > > The concept of a paragraph and a phrase is UNKNOWN in PDF. > If your PDF is tagged, then you could have a chance of retrieving > the English text; otherwise you need OCR software. > Translating English to Chinese is off-topic on this list. > >> 2.2 and so on, and so on... > > You should learn more about PDF before even thinking > about "and so on" options. > >> Generally speaking, book_en.pdf is same to book_zh.pdf except for >> language. >> >> Most import of all, Formatting (chapter, section, subsection and so >> on) must be identical. > > The best way to do this is to hire a human being to > translate the PDF and to create a new PDF based on > the translation. > > br, > Bruno > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Do you like iText? > Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php > Or leave a tip: https://tipit.to/itexttipjar ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Do you like iText? Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Or leave a tip: https://tipit.to/itexttipjar