Fellow bloggers who have not yet learnt Japanese will agree with me that some of the translations thrown up by Google Translate and Babel Fish are downright hilarious. For no fault of theirs, sometimes software do goof up and produce the most amusing results. Hopefully this will all change when Fuji Xerox fine-tunes its new prototype and rolls it on to the production line. The translating photocopy machine can scan a printed sheet of Japanese text from a newspaper or magazine and toss out a translation of it in Chinese, English or Korean while retaining the original layout. At the flick of a switch it works vise versa too. The machine is hooked up to a dedicated translation server. This combined with the algorithms that can distinguish between text, drawings and lines for maintaining page layouts is the key behind the workings.

Fuji Xerox’s photocopy machine translator is still in a concept stage, we hope it goest on the factory-floor soon.
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