{"id":110,"date":"2010-12-28T04:36:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T02:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/log.or.cz\/?p=110"},"modified":"2010-12-28T04:36:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T02:36:20","slug":"datasheet-translator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Datasheet Translator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we (well, mostly other people than me) were dealing with a rather obscure micro-controller when hacking <a href=\"http:\/\/brmlab.cz\/project\/laser_projector\">our laser projector<\/a> in brmlab, the only datasheet we have found has been in Chinese. This is quite often the case with obscure China-made parts (including event stuff like LEDs) and it&#8217;s annoying to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>So I hacked together a simple datasheet translator &#8211; you feed it a PDF with your datasheet, specify the source language, let it munch away for a minute and then it spews out a link to the English translation!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/datasheet-en.or.cz\/\">datasheet-en.or.cz<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nExample: <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2bbq6o7\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2bbq6o7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Its user interface is extremely rudimentary, if someone wants to add an AJAXy progressbar and what-not, just let me know. :-)<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;technology&#8221; is not much to mention either &#8211; thankfully, pdftohtml can do quite nifty stuff nowadays (just needs a lot of beating to properly zoom the documents), and Google Translate can do awesome job with technical documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we (well, mostly other people than me) were dealing with a rather obscure micro-controller when hacking our laser projector in brmlab, the only datasheet we have found has been in Chinese. This is quite often the case with obscure China-made parts (including event stuff like LEDs) and it&#8217;s annoying to deal with. So I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,6],"tags":[60,61],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-linux","category-software","tag-brmlab","tag-datasheet-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}