[Patentpractice] Translation from German to English

[Roger Browdy]

I meant Espacenet, as previously suggested.

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Subject: Re: [Patentpractice] Translation from German to English

The WIPO machine translation of applications is usually pretty good.  They say that they have a special algorithm that is developed from translating patent applications.

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Subject: Re: [Patentpractice] Translation from German to English

Thanks, Timothy. I did try Google translate initially, and the output was not quite good enough. I can understand in broad strokes, but I need to understand some of the details that are not clear from the figures alone (or figures + Google translate).

And unfortunately this is one of those situations where there is no counterpart application, so I was unable to find an existing translation in Google patents.

Thanks to those who have been sending recommendations off list!

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On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 8:35 AM Timothy Snowden via Patentpractice <patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com<mailto:patentpractice at oppedahl-lists.com>> wrote:

Have you tried translate.google.com<http://translate.google.com>? I periodically will need to just understand a PDF --> I will OCR in PDFX-Change in whatever language the document is (you do NOT want to keep searchable images in this case, as it will get in the way visually wen you run it through Google Translate), and then Google Translate usually does a decent job of getting it where I can understand the document.

Of course, if it's highly sensitive, you may not want to use it, but otherwise it's free if you already have an OCR software.

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Subject: [Patentpractice] Translation from German to English

Colleagues,

I need to have a document translated for the purpose of understanding it (no need for a certified translation). I would appreciate off-list recommendations for translators or services you're happy with and, for bonus points, are economical.

Thanks in advance.

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