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I've been looking for a solution to translate a dictionary for me. It is a Shipibo-Conibo (indigenous Peruvian language) to Spanish dictionary- I'd like to translate the Spanish to English (and leave the Shipibo intact). Curious for any thoughts here. I have the dictionary as a PDF (already searchable so I don't think it would need to be re-OCR'd...though that's possible too, it's not clearest scan).

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I wouldn’t be surprised to find that Claude/ChatGPT/etc. can just…do that. With the prompt you just gave.

The output could be in Markdown, which is easily turned into a PDF. You would have to break up the input PDF into pages to avoid running out of output window.

I didn't consider that would actually work and am giving it a try now...but by its own estimate it's going to take several days to finish (I'm not paying for plus or whatever).

I would!

By any chance, would it be possible to share the PDF? I haven't heard shipibo language in a long while, and am quite curious about it.

Here you go-

https://archive.org/details/shipibodiccionario

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