translate a pdf file from german to english

[Stan Goodman]

On Saturday 21 May 2011 at 18:26:30 (GMT+2) Gadi Cohen 
<dragon at wastelands.net> wrote:

> On 21/05/2011 16:20, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > In Google Translate, below the main form, is this link:
> > "Type text or a website address or translate a document."
> > 
> > Thanks, Gadi, I did not know about that until you mentioned it!
> 
> Yeah, it was a big and helpful surprise for me too... thought I'd
> share the love ;)
> 
> >> After eventually finding a manual for my dishwasher in German, I
> >> used Google Translate to do this and finally figured out what all
> >> the beeping meant :)

Manufacturers of major appliances generally market their product 
internationally, which mostly requires user instructions in English. I 
have an Italian washing machine that came with the manufacturer's user 
guide in Italian, Hungarian, and a number of more exotic languages, plus 
the importer's badly written Hebrew translation -- nothing in English, 
because the item is not marketed outside Israel (because nowhere else is 
it customary for washing machines to heat their own water).  I had to 
induce the importer to get me an English user guide for a model which is 
virtually identical with mine save for the water heater. I have also 
done similarly with a German vacuum cleaner. You could probably get the 
manufacturer's user manual for your dishwasher by approaching the local 
agent of the manufacturer.
-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel