Ah, I see your issue. If you can get the images in text format then you can use Google Translate just like any other language. For example: http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/index_ch.php 綠營邀達賴來台 台灣罵的比中國還大聲 <http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1046939&lang=tc_news&cate_img=&cate_rss=news_onlytn> =
"Pan-green camp to invite the Dalai Lama to Taiwan and Taiwan than China has loudly criticized " If you just have an image then that is the same as trying to pulling out english characters from an image. You are going to either have to find something that will do OCR on the image or YOU will have to do OCR on it. You might be able to find a Chinese to English dictionary to help you find the images. I will ask Lia tonight if there is any easier way but she doesn't know Chinese that well either. Another option is to join a service like Livemocha which can match you up with someone who knows Chinese who could help and also explain the word/words you are looking for. >From my little understanding of Chinese, each image has some meaning and many "words" are combinations of various images. On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]>wrote: > > Perhaps an example might help. Here's an image of some Chinese characters: > > http://www.chinesecomputing.com/images/background2.gif > > This appears to be an array of characters of 6 columns wide and 10 > rows deep. Counting from the upper left corner and starting with 1, > the character in column 1, row 1 looks like a rectangle with a > vertical line bisecting it. While the character in column 4, row 9 > looks like a dash or horizontal line. And the character in column 6, > row 8 looks like a cup of tea on top of a dresser. > > Some questions: > > 1) How can I find out what those characters means? > 2) How can I use Google translate to find out what those characters mean? > 3) Are there on-line dictionaries which I can browse to find the > character I'm looking for? > > My interest is not so much in knowing what those particular characters > mean. Rather I'm interested in knowing the process by which I can > discover what those characters mean. > > Regards, > - Robert > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Craig Tatham<[email protected]> wrote: > > If you have those characters on a webpage, then you can copy and paste > the > > characters into Google Translate and it will convert from Chinese to > > English. Trick is knowing if it is simplified or traditional ... > typically > > if its a very complex character it is traditional, simpler ones are > > simplified. > > Craig > > > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> How does one translate Chinese into English? > >> > >> I've used Google Translate to translate simple words and phrases from > >> English to Spanish, German, or French and back. I've even used it to > >> translate English into Chinese. But how to I translate Chinese into > >> English? That is, how do I enter the Chinese characters? > >> > >> For example, I have a Chinese character that kind of looks like two > >> W's, one on top of the other. How do I enter that in to the text box? > >> > >> Regards, > >> - Robert > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
