Need to translate/convert Russian document to English

[Kechara73]

I have an ebook in FB2 and epub format that is in the Russian language. I am trying to find a tool or something that can translate the book to English but leave the epub/FB2 formatting the same. I have searched the web high and low and cannot find a decent copy of this book in english, the one in Russian seems to be formatted right but I can't read that language.

Can anyone advise?

[Zetmolm]

You are looking for the impossible. No such tool exists. You can either wait for such a tool to be developed or learn Russian. The latter will be the quicker solution.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Kechara73

I have an ebook in FB2 and epub format that is in the Russian language. I am trying to find a tool or something that can translate the book to English but leave the epub/FB2 formatting the same. I have searched the web high and low and cannot find a decent copy of this book in english, the one in Russian seems to be formatted right but I can't read that language.

Can anyone advise?

You could try converting to HTMLZ, unpack that with an archive utility and drop the HTML file you'll find there into a browser and get the one of the online translators (Google, Bing, WorldLingo, Babylon etc) to get a rough and ready translation into English.

Then you could save the resultant HTML and use it to reconstruct the book.

Could be a lot of work and the result may not be very useful, if its a literary work then the translation will be awful.

I'd contact the Russian publishers and ask if they know of a professional English translation. If it's an older work (late 19th early 20th century) then sometimes one can find a French translation of Russian literary works. How's your French ?

BR