Babylon can't recognize text on Firefox 4 ~ 8 & IE 9

Question

Before I upgraded to Firefox 4 & IE 9, Babylon was succesfully recognizing text on those browsers. After the upgrade, it cannot recognize text anymore. I've played with the OCR Optimization in the advanced settings, but it didn't help. Babylon works well out of these browsers, though.

Is there a workaround or solution to this problem?

Answer 1

I found the following post belonging to user "wimyogya" while searching the web for a clue:

Babylon Support earlier informed me that at this moment they do not support IE9, Chrome 10beta and Firefox 4. They recommend temporary browser downgrade.

Later I got the answers to my additional questions:

1. Our developing department is already working to make Babylon 9 compatible with IE9, Chrome 10 and Firefox 4, and it should take about 3-4 weeks.
2. Babylon Company is making the adaptations.
3. Only users of Babylon 9 and users who purchased Babylon 8 in grace period, from the 1st of December of 2010, will be eligible to get the update.

Seems my Babylon 7 becomes pretty useless :(

Too bad!

Answer 2

Only an upgrade from Babylon will solve this issue. After contacting Babylon`s support team, they claim that IE 9 is still beta and thus not supported. Funny but sad.

Answer 3

I found a workaround for Google Chrome (howbeit it is not useful for me as I don't use Chrome):

Disable ClearType feature of Windows to solve the problem. In this way, Babylon can recognize texts in Google Chrome.

That being done in Firefox 4, Babylon captures only parts of words, not full words as before; so this workaround is not working for Firefox 4.

Answer 4

lingoes (2.8.1) is very similar to Babylon and it is free and better text Capture Capabilities:

• There are plugins for firefox and chrome here http://www.lingoes.net/en/translator/plugins.htm
• IE9 is supported out of the box
• Acrobat Reader Professional is also supporter (not the free reader version)

Answer 5

I accidentally found a temporary solution to this. I don't know if it will work for you but I hope so.

Select the word you want to translate in Firefox 4 and instead of right-click+ctrl use the F10 key. Babylon will recognize the word and show you the translation.

I am using Babylon v8 r36, Firefox 4, Windows 7.