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Aggie06

Aggie06

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Anyone had any luck with them? I have two manuals for a combine that are in German, and I would like to have them translated to English. They’re scanned PDFs, so I haven’t had any luck trying free online translation tools. They seem to be finicky about them being scanned PDFs.

I tried a ChatGPT translation, which cost around $80, and it was pretty rough.
 
As someone that speaks a couple of languages fluently, if you are looking for a translation, Chat GPT would probably be your best bet. Get the rough translation, and then redline it, and use correct grammar and terms for your situation. If it is a technical manual, that is likely what you are going to get, anyways. Unless the translator is super well versed in an industry, they will do a rough translation, and let you figure out the rest.
 
Aggie06 said:
Anyone had any luck with them? I have two manuals for a combine that are in German, and I would like to have them translated to English. They’re scanned PDFs, so I haven’t had any luck trying free online translation tools. They seem to be finicky about them being scanned PDFs.

I tried a ChatGPT translation, which cost around $80, and it was pretty rough.
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Try the Google translate app. It let's you hold the camera over the words and translates them to English. I use it all the time at work to translate old electrical and hydraulic prints that were printed in Italian only.
 
I've used Google translate with relative success to translate tables in foreign languages.
 
Az Scooter said:
As someone that speaks a couple of languages fluently, if you are looking for a translation, Chat GPT would probably be your best bet. Get the rough translation, and then redline it, and use correct grammar and terms for your situation. If it is a technical manual, that is likely what you are going to get, anyways. Unless the translator is super well versed in an industry, they will do a rough translation, and let you figure out the rest.
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It’s a technical manual. I was able to get scanned PDFs from a salesman for the company that took over the original years ago.

Have a buddy looking to see if he can find an English version floating around also.
 
For the optical character recognition (OCR) part, try amazon web services, the first month is free so nothing to lose. If AWS doesnt have translation just plug the text into some other online translator.
 
Manuals for a Hege? And Wintersteiger's knowledge runs out? Sounds familiar...

Are they service manuals or parts manuals? Depending on the model, I could send you needed pages from our parts manual, but I haven't seen a service manual for it and just start taking stuff apart as needed.

Also, Zurn's use the Hege system now so I could see what manuals came with our new Zurn 150 and if something there could help.
 
I have the manual and the parts manual which came from the Zurn salesman via the German office.

The Wintersteiger guy never responded to me, which isn’t a shock. He seemed less than eager to do much when I talked to him in person at a meeting in January.

I found a manual for a Hege 140 online, so I probably can piece in information from it as well.
 
I just looked in the farm basement. English instruction manual for a Hege 140 and horribly translated parts manual for a 140.

So what you already have.

Other than that, I don't know of a translation. We have a German family visiting later this summer and are going to convince the kids to translate for us.
 

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Lowrollin70gmc said:
I just looked in the farm basement. English instruction manual for a Hege 140 and horribly translated parts manual for a 140.

So what you already have.

Other than that, I don't know of a translation. We have a German family visiting later this summer and are going to convince the kids to translate for us.
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The 140 I found online was a Russian version, but it could be translated.

What are yall harvesting with the Hege?
 
It's been used for canola, camelina, sunflowers, wheat, barley, oats, dry beans, soybeans, and I'm sure more I don't remember. Lots of weeds as well: kochia, foxtail, lambsquarters, rrpw, waterhemp, etc.

Pretty much anything that'll run through a platform header got fed to it at some point.

Two Zurn 150s just got added to the fleet, so the 8 year old Almaco will be sold and the trusty 'ol Hege will semiretire to weed duty.
 
The PDF you have is most likely just a jpeg , get it OCR scanned then use a translator
 
Lowrollin70gmc said:
It's been used for canola, camelina, sunflowers, wheat, barley, oats, dry beans, soybeans, and I'm sure more I don't remember. Lots of weeds as well: kochia, foxtail, lambsquarters, rrpw, waterhemp, etc.

Pretty much anything that'll run through a platform header got fed to it at some point.

Two Zurn 150s just got added to the fleet, so the 8 year old Almaco will be sold and the trusty 'ol Hege will semiretire to weed duty.
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Part of NDSU or independent?

If you’re part of NDSU, and someone comes around asking about a manual, it’s because of me.:lmao:
 
Close. :flipoff2:

NDSU alumni and former employee, now independent.

They're good folks, if someone has a manual I'm sure they'd be happy to scan it or something. They might be busy for a few more weeks, our minimal snow early spring turned into tons of rain so we're still planting up here.

Or I'll cut you a deal on a 100% english manual, comes with a matching Almaco combine.
 
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