If you have the legal rights to translate the book, you should just get teh original source material from the author and translate it there.
Leonard On May 15, 2008, at 3:51 AM, Bruno Lowagie wrote: > 金健康 wrote: >> Can iText meet my idear? >> >> 1.Supposed I have an ebook(book_en.pdf) in English. > > Consider this PDF to be like a vector image. > (This is an ASSUMPTION based on an educated guess.) > >> 2.Parse book_en.pdf : > > You can parse the file structure of a PDF and discover PDF objects > such as null, boolean, number, string, name, array, dictionary, > stream. > And you can parse content streams that consist of operators and > operands (the Adobe Imaging Model). > >> 2.1 Export a paragraph or a phrase, tanslate to Chinese, and >> rewrite >> to book_zh.pdf; > > The concept of a paragraph and a phrase is UNKNOWN in PDF. > If your PDF is tagged, then you could have a chance of retrieving > the English text; otherwise you need OCR software. > Translating English to Chinese is off-topic on this list. > >> 2.2 and so on, and so on... > > You should learn more about PDF before even thinking > about "and so on" options. > >> Generally speaking, book_en.pdf is same to book_zh.pdf except for >> language. >> >> Most import of all, Formatting (chapter, section, subsection and so >> on) must be identical. > > The best way to do this is to hire a human being to > translate the PDF and to create a new PDF based on > the translation. > > br, > Bruno > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Do you like iText? > Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php > Or leave a tip: https://tipit.to/itexttipjar ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Do you like iText? Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Or leave a tip: https://tipit.to/itexttipjar
