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Translating foreign instructions

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I think some Ship modelers might find this tip useful. If you’re building a model from a kit that has foreign instructions Italian even Chinese, and it’s missing English instructions or if it has them and they’re undecipherable, try this.
Using your iPhone, take a photo of the instructions then copy and paste the photo into ChatGPT. Then ask it to translate it into English. I did it and it works perfectly. It probably will also work with Copilot, Gemini or other apps.
Here’s an example.


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I have done same thing with google translate. For me, I did one section at a time and typed the translation into a word document for use when I build the kit.
 
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