"I don't know much about translation, or languages, or writing systems, or any of this, but I guess what would make the most sense to start with would be to look through everything and see what symbols or combinations of symbols appear the most often. Wouldn't you think?"

She studies the page the book is open to, then flips it to the next one. She's not trained to use her abilities as an AI, so her reaction time is about the same as it would be for a human, but she's able to memorize what she sees, and so it's not long before she points out a certain combination.

"There, this combination shows up an awful lot." She figures a combination that shows up often must be the word 'the' or something.