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A small reading experiment

Bring a page.
Find your rhythm.

Try a short passage from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Open the fixed page, then read it in Ponte.

Text PDFA two-column, selectable-text excerpt. Free to download.Image-only PDFThe same excerpt rendered as a scan, for trying on-device text recognition.Reading walkthroughA printable guide for your first import and Restore.

Three things to try

  1. Save the text PDF to Files and import it into Ponte.
  2. Choose Restore and adjust the reader’s type size and spacing.
  3. Check a passage against the original; then try the image-only version.

For a prepared English-to-French example, explore Ponte’s bundled samples. Importing this download does not create a free cloud translation: translating your own file uses paid credits.

Original text: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter I, 1813. Source: Project Gutenberg #1342. This download contains the opening excerpt, with typesetting prepared for Ponte.

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