My first computer-related job was manually typing a part of an extensive German-Russian dictionary into text files. I was about 15, it was around 1990, scanners were a rare thing, and OCRs weren't a thing at all.
The resulting files should be space-aligned at some random column, like 30 or so, of the available 80. I still remember the translations of two words that were longer than that. One was "to attack the enemy in the night while wearing a camouflage robe". The other - "to descend carefully using an unreliable rope".