My Conversations with ChatGPT
Machine Translation (MT) and translations generated by AI have brought about a paradigm shift in the translation industry. The output of MT will continue to improve, especially when associated with clients’ translation memories and human editing. Language Service Providers are adapting and are including MT in their processes, when MT is applicable. While linguists will continue to be essential in the process, their role will shift from that of translators to validators of content generated by MT. At Excel Translations, we wanted to know what AI thinks about all of this and decided to have an open conversation on the matter with ChatGPT. I will regularly publish a question and ChatGPT’s response, uncensored.
QUESTION 12:
Can machine translation automatically extract text from scanned content?
ChatGPT’s Response:
No, machine translation systems do not have the capability to automatically extract text from scanned content. Text extraction from scanned documents typically requires Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, which is a separate process from machine translation.
OCR software is specifically designed to analyze scanned images, recognize the characters, and convert them into editable and searchable text. Once the text has been extracted using OCR, it can then be processed by a machine translation system for translation.
So, while machine translation can handle the translation of text once it has been extracted through OCR, the process of text extraction itself requires OCR technology or specialized OCR software.
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