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websites. Many of the translators Fagan Finder accesses will already be familiar to
users-Systran, PROMT, InterTran. But there are many others that users may not
know about and Fagan Finder can help you locate and use them from one interface.
Keep several things in mind: first, Fagan Finder is simply an interface to
translation tools located at other websites. Second, some of the tools it accesses
are only word-far-word ("dictionary") translations while other will translate blocks of
text and still others are true uri or webpage translators, translating entire webpages
or even sites. Finally, some of the sites Fagan Finder accesses require registration
to use (e.g., Ajeeb's Arabic to English webpage translation tool). All this being said,
the Fagan Finder translation wizard is a wonderful resource not only because of all
the translation tools it brings together in one place, but perhaps even more for the
virtual international keyboards it offers. At present, Fagan Finder provides the
following virtual keyboards:
• Arabic
• Cyrillic
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Thai
Virtual keyboards make it much easier to translate text from one of these languages
to English because they mean users do not need international input locales (i.e.,
software for non-Latin keyboards) loaded on their computers. Fagan Finder's virtual
keyboard option even supports right-to-Ieft languages. Second, the international
keyboards can be used not only to translate terms but also to search on non-English
terms. How? It's simple. Select the international keyboard of your choice at Fagan
Finder, type a word or phrase in, say, Hebrew.
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