16th-Century Latin Translation

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Budget / Salary$30–250
TypeFreelance project
LocationRemote
Posted3 hours ago
I have a searchable PDF (1,168 pages) of Luis de Alcázar’s 1614 Latin text “Investigatione Apocalypsi” that I need rendered into clear, contemporary English. My priority is readability in modern language rather than a strictly literal rendition, yet I still expect key theological nuances to remain intact.

The manuscript’s Renaissance-era typeface challenges most off-the-shelf OCR and machine-translation pipelines I have tried; previous attempts stalled or produced garbled output. I welcome a hybrid workflow—high-quality OCR (Abbyy FineReader, Transkribus, Google Vision, etc.), large-context AI translation (e.g., DeepL, OpenAI GPT-4 with function-calling or batch prompts), and human post-editing—to achieve a coherent, fluent result without line-by-line manual translation from scratch.

Special focus: any passages that discuss Jews must receive extra care to ensure the translation is accurate.

Deliverables
• Complete English translation in a single, well-formatted document (Word or Google Docs).
• A separate list of page numbers where Jewish themes appear, with the corresponding English text highlighted for quick review.
• Brief methodology notes outlining tools, prompts, and correction steps so I can replicate or audit the process later if needed.

I can supply the original PDF immediately. Tell me how you will break the work into milestones, which AI tools you intend to combine, and a realistic timeframe to get this ambitious project over the finish line.
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