INTER-LINGUAL COMMS
August 1st, 2002
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A COMPUTERISED translation tool has been developed by India's Department of Information Technology, which will allow publishers to scan copy written in one of the country's varied languages and scripts and translate it into another tongue. Its Optical Character Recognition scans printed or even hand-written text and converts it into a computer processable format, from which translations can be generated.
A COMPUTERISED translation tool has been developed by India's Department of Information Technology, which will allow publishers to scan copy written in one of the country's varied languages and scripts and translate it into another tongue. Its Optical Character Recognition scans printed or even hand-written text and converts it into a computer processable format, from which translations can be generated.
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