Hello Ricky Lomey,
Friday, September 5, 2003, 4:26:40 PM, you wrote:
RL> 2. Is t-mail also able to translate web pages. Say, if I get a page with
RL> grabpage.org, can I send the text to t-mail to translate into English as
RL> opposed to a message to somebody? Can it do Hebrew to English and English to
Hebrew?
Here is a tricky hack: instead of sending message to somebody, send message to
yourself.
So you get a translation. Aside from t-mail, there is similar worldlingo.com
translation service
F.e. you mail German text to an address like
german-english @ translate.worldlingo.com
and you get back an English equivalent. Like any machine translator in this world,
it is not perfect.
RL> Is there a system that can both track pages when they change and
RL> translate the tracked pages into English and then send the English?
I know services offering free tracking (watchThatPage.com, changedetection etc).
I know services offering free translation (t-mail, worldlingo)
But I don't know about 2-in-1 services.
At the same time I see no difficulty to re-send a text you got from watchThatPage to
Worldlingo.
RL> 4. How do you do what I call third party conversion with the PDF
RL> convertion
RL> service? It says if the document is on the hard drive it should be sent as RL>
mime attachment but if it is an E-mail, how do I sent it? Should I just
RL> forward it as is or save it to the C-drive and then re-attach it? How do
RL> I
RL> know whether it should be done to html or text or doesn't it matter? Is
RL> it
RL> possible to make a message rule to automatically forward PDF from the
RL> sender
RL> to these services each time they arrive in my inbox?
A file attached to email can be either a MIME attachment or UUE attachment. To make
sure that pdf2txt service gets it in MIME, save it to C-drive and reattach (Of course,
I assume you mail program is set to attach files as MIME base 64)
Well, if you know how to open message headers, you can bypass this procedure. Open
message headers. If you see something like below, it already is MIME base 64, and you
do not need to save it to C-drive and reattach. You can just forward it.
Content-Type: application/x-msdownload; name="plz_mail_kill.exe"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="plz_mail_kill.ex"
TVpQAAIEAA8A//8AALgAQAAaAAA
Regarding the rule to automatically forward PDF files to pdf2txt service - why not?
Technically it is possible. Do you really get so often PDF files? And there is no way
to ask the sender to send it as plain text? Well if the sender is a robot, i guess I
could understand.
BTW, do you know that you can just open PDF doc in Acrobat Reader (freeware), go via
menus this way
File -- Export Document To Text, provide new doc name, then press OK. Voila - you've
done everything locally and quickly.
No need to wait for a pdf2txt robot response.
RL> 5. I understand there is a text to html convertion service but what
RL> about
RL> the reverse as I often find html a problem?
Again , why not open HTM/HTML file in a browser locally and save it as TXT file?
In MSIE it is possible. I think other browsers also allow it.
That is for the case you got it as HTML page.
But you can order a page from www4mail, grabpage, agora, binky, getweb right as plain
text:
For www4mail use command
get http://etcetera
For grabpage - order it with URL: prefix
For Binky use command
URL -t http://etcetera
For agora use SEND command
For getweb use GET command
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