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Does anyone know how to ocr??

Every attempt I try gives me gibberish.
 
Re: How to OCR?

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Google translate on my phone is not bad at OCR when I am taking photo of moonspeak...
Though, translation itself is mostly gibberish :D
 
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In all seriousness: Probably the most useful desktop OCR program for translators would be
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. Run it, point it at the Japanese and it'll OCR it. Critically, for each character it will give a list of characters that it could be, in the order that it thinks is most likely. Basically this means that when it gets something wrong, it's normally fairly easy to pick out the correct character from the list.
 
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habisain said:
In all seriousness: Probably the most useful desktop OCR program for translators would be
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. Run it, point it at the Japanese and it'll OCR it. Critically, for each character it will give a list of characters that it could be, in the order that it thinks is most likely. Basically this means that when it gets something wrong, it's normally fairly easy to pick out the correct character from the list.
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Ya, tried using it, not sure how you compile it though.

By that I mean, how do you use that program to read a page of characters? It only translates one character at a time.
 
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Typically Kanjitomo translates one word at a time i.e. it'll select multiple characters that form one word. If it isn't doing that, you may want to manually set the text orientation as sometimes it'll get it the wrong way around.

As to how to translate a sentence... translate it word by word. If you need to, copy the OCR'd characters from Kanjitomo to Notepad or similar.
 
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I usually just use
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. It does pretty well. You do have to check and correct the output, since it still makes mistakes, especially if the background is noisy. It usually gets 90%+ of the characters right, though.
 
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Best OCR, in my opinion, is google translator app for smartphones. It's easy to use and it can capture any text.

I've tried few OCR programs for PC and it was pretty inconvenient to use.

With smartphone you just take a picture, select text and it translates it.
 
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Visual Novel Reader has OCR built in; if there's text it doesn't hook, you can just hold alt, click and drag a box around the text, and it will OCR and translate it for you. It's not always perfect, especially if the text is on a weird background, but works pretty well.
 
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Kanjitomo works best for the really hard to read stuff. But it takes some fiddling. I've found the web OCR sites to be useless for all but the most readable text, and in that case, google ocr on a phone is better.
 
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Thanks for the suggestions!

Here are my 2 cents:

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or if somehow you can manage it, ABBYY's Screenshot Reader...
 
Yeah. Capture2text is the easiest. Since it has that recapture.

Another way you can do it is if you have microsoft's translator widget (which they recently removed from the app store), then you can use the windows snip tool to capture images and drop them into the widget.
 
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