30-06-2008
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Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Pine Bluff, Arkansas Real Name: Greg My Models: model planes tanks and helicopters as well as missiles and rockets Visit GEEDUBBYA's Gallery
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| Howdy lusitano, The google language tools is a great help in translations but, as with all online translators, they leave abit to be desired with mistakes etc. And typing in german is tough too However, most flatbed scanners for home computers have OCR (Optical Character Recognition) programs that will allow you to scan the instructions then convert the text on the scanned image to a word document which you can then copy and paste into one of the online translators. I have used this more than a few times on various things including model instructions. Now if you have a scanner but no OCR program you can download one for free online, just search google for "Free OCR downloads", these programs are really useful tools to have on your computer. You can even scan photos with text on a sign in the background and it will convert the text on the sign in the photo to a word document for you  This may be somethng you may or may not want to try, but i thought i would let you know about it anyway Have a good day, Greg aka GEEDUBBYA (GW)
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