Hello All,
Some time ago, I purchased a noodle maker for making Udon noodles from scratch.
See https://www.ebay.com/p/1869703792?iid=112590190054Though the device shipped from Japan, it arrived in short order. Eager to try it out, I opened the box. It consisted of a hand cranked machine with rollers to flatten dough and 4 interchangeable cutting modules to produce pasta of different widths.
It included a detailed instruction manual/recipe book. Unfortunately for me, it was in Japanese, a language that I do not read.
Out of curiosity, today I scanned a page of the manual and saved a small section of that page as a .pdf file.
Next, I searched on-line for a free optical character recognition program that could turn my image to characters. I found
Convertio;
www.convertio.com and uploaded my .pdf image. Convertio offers to translate 10 submissions for free. After that, the charge is $7.99 for 100 pages. Convertio performed OCR and produced a transcript for download. Mind you as expected, the text was in Japanese.
I then went to
Google Translate;
https://translate.google.com/ and pasted the Japanese characters into the program. Soon, Google Translate transformed the text into English.
Amazing technology.
What had been translated?
"Put ①, strong flour and potato starch in a sea urchin bowl and mix them roughly like cutting with a rubber spatula.
If you don't have enough water, add a little hot water."Ralph Sutter
