Read the word in pdf file

Question

Hello everyone special hello to you VULPES! So i have been reading books lately on my brand new laptop and I encountered a problem of not knowing some of the words. So i was looking for a software that would translate the words for me  i found babylon but it sucks so I want to make my own. So as the thread title states how would i get the word recognizable from pdf file when i move my mouse over the word? Like for example I move the mouse over word run and it would have like little square above the word and have all the words in native language. And then maybe i click ctrl+space and it would write that word and translation in the notepad

Vulpes · Answer

Sorry I think I misread the question last night but George is right - it would be very hard to write something like this. You'd probably have to write a plug-in for Acrobat Reader which would require an understanding of the Adobe SDK and C/C++ programming. There's no support for .NET to my knowledge. If I were you I'd either persevere with Babylon keep a window open to Bing translator: http://www.microsofttranslator.com/ or convert your PDF to MS Word which has a built-in translation feature: http://lifehacker.com/345639/translate-text-in-microsoft-word-2007

George eric · Answer

Hi  I am sorry to say that PDF is a image(technically) more like the text embed in. So direct translation might be quite hard(Or just my opinion). I think if you can extract the text out of the PDF and then translate the text. That will be some little easy of the work. Also I can help with extract text from PDF if you need. :) Best Luck to you!

Prime b · Answer

VULPES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But what if I want to make my own simple translator that would use google translate and would put the words in the notepad?

Vulpes · Answer

Thought I'd just say a quick hello before I finish for today. The only software I know of that fits the bill is in fact Babylon so I'm afraid I'm no help on this one :(