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Written by Press Release
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Saturday, 26 August 2006 |
(Seattle,
WA) - Bedouin Ventures, LLC, (www.bedouinventures.com) today
released BabelPix™, a cross-platform software application that will
enable photographers and stock photography agencies to sell to
non-English speaking international audiences by translating photo
keywords to foreign languages. The application will also allow
foreign photographers and image buyers access to photographs and
markets previously only available to English speakers by translating
foreign language keywords to English.
BabelPix™ (www.babelpix.com) accepts .jpg or .tif image files with
embedded keywords and translates those files to foreign languages with
a simple, easy-to-use interface. Bedouin Ventures, LLC,
officially released the English-Spanish/Spanish-English version today,
but reported that more versions are in the works. The company
plans to offer additional modules in coming months, including Chinese,
German, and other languages.
Bedouin Ventures, LLC, was founded in early 2006 to provide a versatile
software application which would allow both English and non-English
speakers to translate keywords to or from their respective
languages. BabelPix™ will provide photo buyers and sellers with
access to markets beyond their own shores by breaking down the language
barrier.
Photo buyers locate images that interest them by keyword. Photo
sellers keyword digital photographs to describe the contents so that
buyers can quickly find useful images by searching relevant terms.
BabelPix™, a Java-based application, operates on Windows, Mac OS X
(PowerPC and Universal Binary) and Linux platforms. The
application is capable of batch-translating the large numbers of
keyworded files found in many stock photography libraries. The
application extracts keywords in one language from embedded IPTC data
and translates those keywords, creating a new file with foreign
language keywords. Since only the metadata is changed, the actual
pixels of the image remain untouched, eliminating photographers’
concerns about degradation of image quality. BabelPix also allows
users to customize dictionaries and correct translations for context.
Bedouin Ventures also offers consulting services to stock photography
sellers, using BabelPix to create bi-lingual or multi-lingual
photography sales platforms to increase sales abroad.
Conceived and designed by Bedouin Ventures, LLC, BabelPix™ was
programmed by Giorgio Maone, founder of the Italian software company
InformAction and developer of the critically acclaimed FlashGot and
NoScript open source Firefox addons. FlashGot is one of the most
downloaded Firefox extensions worldwide, and NoScript was named one of
PCWorld.com’s “100 Best Products of the Year” in July 2006.
BabelPix™ costs $39.95 and is available at the company’s website,
www.babelpix.com. |
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