Happy new machine learning world

Today I discovered that Microsoft Translator can translate PDFs directly, keeping up with the text formatting and tables pretty good.

Cherry on the cake:

You can setup trainings to teach the Microsoft Translator how to translate sentences using your style and terminology. Given below are the steps to setup and conduct a training that will build a custom translation system.

(requires registration, of course, but still free!)

Pleasantly surprised. Now, I really should fix my TeX compilation setup and feed him with RTF or Markdown instead of PDF when possible, but I’m too lazy and the PDF works fine too :)