Copier Auto-Translates Japanese to English

StCredZero writes "Wild. Fuji has created a photocopier that automatically translates documents from Japanese to English. That's pretty nuts. Apparently, the copier can figure out what sections are text, OCR the text, send it to a translation engine, and put the english back into place."

All the cartoon drawings...

[Anonymous Coward]

Turn into actual pictures of people, too! Amazing!

Not new

[Anonymous Coward]

They've been using this for years to translate instruction manuals.

I just photocopied this article

[Spy Hunter]

StCredZero "writes wildness. Fuji drew up the photocopying machine which automatically translates the document from English from Japanese. That is the clean nut. With respect to appearance, as for the copier the text, as for OCR what kind of section text, to send that to the translation engine, and in the place English". You reset, or can grasp.

shouldn't that be

[alshithead]

It translates to Engrish?

As for this it's possible it keeps being surprised

[Solra Bizna]

I think of that this is rather sweet. As for converting Japanese rather than easy, converting other manner with a certain manner, with other manner hard. As for existence of Chinese character, for example, thing is made easier. But (with easily from Chinese character. Chinese which becomes complete)

-:sigma.SB

Re:shouldn't that be

[Anonymous Coward]

I wish. It's machine code.

Finally!

[UncleTogie]

Hey, I just got one of these and all it'll print is "All your base are belong to us."....

Reminds me of "NewsRadio"...

[Anonymous Coward]

[Reading from his book, "Jimmy James: Macho Business Donkey Wrestler," translated to Japanese and back again]
Jimmy: I had a small house of brokerage on Wall Street. Many days no business comes to my hut. Jimmy has fear? A thousand times no. I never doubted myself for a minute, for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo...
[pauses while turning page]
Jimmy: dung.

Re:shouldn't that be

[thatskinnyguy]

Obligatory: "It's 'fried rice' you plick!"

Re:Engrish

[Jarjarthejedi]

So how bad are we talking? Vista Speech Recognition bad or Zero Wing bad?

Re:Great!

[Divebus]

They probably used it to translate the instruction manual into Engrish. [engrish.com]

Re:Not new

[nmb3000]

They've been using this for years to translate instruction manuals.

You're not joking [worsethanfailure.com]. It is completely worth your time to read this entire image.

Tattoos..

[Cuznmark1]

This may help people from making some big mistakes with their tats...

Re:Not new

[flyingfsck]

Japanese instruction is to be helping and not to be laughful at.

Re:Great!

[PsamtikNerd]

They did something like this with a Japanese car manual a long time ago; it ended up something like: "If a passenger of foot should obstacle your passage, tootle the horn. Tootle him melodiously at first, but if he continues obstacles your passage, then tootle him with vigor."

It's just going to be a matter of time...

[el_flynn]

...before we see photos of the scanned documents in http://www.engrish.com/ [engrish.com] ... What were they thinking of??

ether lord - lost in translation

[Somegeek]

Our those which achieve the main thing of the ether of title in order to know never clearly that remnant because of the remainder which it should find!

Since I could never have created the above err, prose, myself, I typed the following answer into babelfish and translated it into Japanese, and for good measure, back into English.

Clearly that remains for those of us who have achieved the title Ether Lord to know, and for the rest never to find out!

Re:Not new

[c3ph45]

Written by Miss Teen South Carolina.

Re:Engrish

[Stormwatch]

So how bad are we talking? Vista Speech Recognition bad or Zero Wing bad?

Yes.

Re:Not new

[chgros]

What the hell do you do with an 'ether lord fucking net'?
You glue the sex rubber mat.

Re:All the cartoon drawings...

[rde]

Ooh, I hope not. If it does, then it means that it's got a real prediliction towards anime. That could produce some interesting translations, such as...

Dear Sir,
Your opponent is me! With regard to your memo dated 14th inst., I'll never forgive you, vampire bastard! Super ultra science business meeting, engage!
Noooooooooooooooo!

Yours faithfully,
Bob Morton
Chief Gundam Officer

Re:Not new

[Fred_A]

What the hell do you do with an 'ether lord fucking net'?

If you don't know, then you don't need one.

Re:It's impossible...

[Monchanger]

Anyone who tells you otherwise is probably selling something (a crappy machine translator, to be exact!).

Well put, and you may get free shipping if you add a "USB Humping Dog" to your cart:

Or get your hump on with a USB Humping Dog -- on sale now, satisfaction guaranteed! http://www.digitalworldtokyo.com/index.php/shop/product/usb_humping_dog/ [digitalworldtokyo.com]

"Satisfaction guaranteed"? For the buyer or the dog?

(so glad I RTFA)

Re:Great!

[mikael]

That's the fun part of these automatic translators - put in perfectly good English, translate to a foreign language, and translate back to English. Good fun for a rainy afternoon.

"Today is under construction... please do not be alarmed by the construction men hanging themselves from outside your balcony. We will take them down tomorrow..."

Re:Tattoos..

[Anonymous Coward]

Or an excuse to make a photocopy of their ass & moon their boss all in the same lunch hour.

Why would someone's boss be trapped under the glass in a photocopier?

Re:Anime copy machine

[GTMoogle]

Its powder level! It's over 9000!

(I tried so hard not to rise to the bait... I honestly did. Then I thought of the power/powder pun and I couldn't stop. Damn you Psykechan! Damn you!