Say dad bought you a digital camera from Japan but the problem is that the PDF manual that came with the camera is also written in Japanese.

How do you quickly translate that PDF file into an English document ?

Solution: If the PDF document is not password protected, you can easily convert it into another language via Google Translate.

The idea is that you extract the text from the PDF file and pass it to Google Translate. Here’s how:

Step 1: Open Zoho Viewer (review) and upload the file(s). Other than PDF, you may also upload common Office file formats like doc, xls and ppt.

Step 2: Zoho Viewer provides a unique URL for each of your web document. Go to Google Translate, type that web address, select a language pair and hit the Translate button. Voilà!

Important: If the source document is multi-lingual, you should considering uploading to Slideshare since they handle foreign languages slightly better than Zoho Viewer. See a sample document from Zoho and Slideshare.

Slideshare will create a text transcript of your PDF document that can you pass on to Google Translate for converting into another language.

You may even extract text from PDF documents using Adobe Reader itself but again, this program doesn’t work too well with all languages.

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If you are seriously looking for an alternative to the ubiquitous Microsoft Office Suite or the free OpenOffice office suite, Corel WordPerfect Office X3 is definitely one to consider.

Corel has put together a solid office suite that offers unique features like ability to export or import PDF documents, mail client with full indexing, one-click Powerpoint presentation conversion to Flash and a Save without metadata command that clears out everything that you can’t see on the page. (related: Microsoft Office Word 2003 Redaction Add-in, Redacting Adobe PDF)

Publish to PDF: Corel WordPerfect 13 provides support for reading and importing PDF files without having to buy a PDF conversion software like Adobe Acrobat. Once open, you can edit the document as a WordPerfect file. Microsoft Office 2003 can’t export files in PDF format (although Microsoft Office 12 will)

Corel WordPerfect Mail program, based on Yahoo StataLabs Bloomba mail client, has built-in indexing, RSS reading, and trainable spam filter. WordPerfect Mail uses a tool called Smart Groups to organize e-mail, listserv messages, and RSS feeds. You can add additional predefined RSS feeds, or create your own using the Smart Groups Wizard in WordPerfect Mail.

You can easily open, import, export, and save Microsoft Office document formats in WordPerfect Office Suite. The new Compatibility toolbar lets you save WordPerfect documents to popular document publishing formats, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, HTML, and XML with one easy click.

By minimizing the differences between the Corel and Microsoft productivity suites, Corel hopes to reduce the training time for converts from Microsoft Office. Yahoo search capabilities are embedded within the word processor. You now can highlight text in a WordPerfect document and select Search With Yahoo from the right-click menu, and Web search results appear in a browser window.

The Corel Presentations tool can export a presentation in Macromedia Flash format, allowing it to be published to the web. Another real time saver in WordPerfect is the new Ctrl-Alt-V hotkey to “paste without formatting.” Paste text from a Web page and give it the format of the document you’re editing.

Corel WordPerfect Office X3 Standard edition includes WordPerfect, Quattro Pro (spreadsheet), Presentations, and WordPerfect Mail (an e-mail client). It also comes with a host of utilities, including Pocket Oxford English Dictionary, PerfectScript (a macro script language), the WordPerfect XML Designer and the Pleadings Expert (for lawyers). The Professional Edition adds the Paradox database application, the WordPerfect SDK, and Visual Basic.

Corel X3 release does not support the vendor-independent OpenDocument Format (ODF).

Download Corel Word Perfect X3 198 MB EXE installer

Source: Transitioning from Microsoft Office to WordPerfect Office | Corel WordPerfect Office Family | Corel WordPerfect Office X3 Standard Edition | Review: WordPerfect Office X3 Standard Edition | CNet Take

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• Convert PDF to Flash Movies Online with PDFMeNot

Like Scibd and SlideShare, PDFMeNot is an online PDF to Flash converter that will instantly convert any Adobe PDF document into a Macromedia Flash (SWF) movie while preserving the original layout, image graphics and formatting.The PDF to SWF converter can very useful when you have to embed PDF files in web pages for inline viewing or you want to read PDF files on a computer that has no Acrobat Reader.

Here’s how to create Flash movies from PDF documents:

1. Go to PDFMeNot.com (Username: stateless Password: systems) and type the URL of the PDF file - you can use this PDF link as an example. Alternatively upload a PDF from the local hard drive.

2. In your Firefox menu bar, click Tools -> Page Info -> Media. Select the object that has an SWF extension (e.g. pdfmenot.com/store/f6a29535da98cd1.swf)  and save it to your disk. That’s the SWF file created from your PDF document. For IE, here’s the trick to save Flash locally.

Bloggers can embed the following JS code in their web templates and PDF links will open in Flash SWF format via PDFMeNot.

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://pdfmenot.com/convert.js”></script>

While PDFMeNot is an extremely convenient option for quickly viewing PDF files in the browser without loading Adobe Reader, the downside is that the generated SWF objects contains Zoom but no Print and Search function. They are all supported in Macromedia Flash Paper format used by Scribd.

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