Ogodei-Khan said:
jisho.org

Could solve a few problems for yah. It does kanji identification, which is the killer for me (my JP vocabulary is fairly large, but i know very few kanji, comparatively), and can then list all words which begin with that kanji. Saves you the time of having to transcribe the kanji back into babelfish.

Ogodei-Khan said:
Also, i'd call メチャメチャ　”fuck up" more than rape. Rape is a specific word, whereas repetitive words like that in Japanese tend to be slangier in meaning.

Vanndril said:
Just thought it was a useful little thing to share.

Cradily said:
That's a HUGE useful thing.

Cradily said:
What is this magic. Great, now I'm going to spend the rest of the night playing with this xD

Vanndril said:
I've been meaning to put this out there if I ever got the chance, and now's the perfect time.

I went looking around for a good piece of offline Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software a while back and found something I find incredibly useful. It's a program called KanjiTomo. It's free.

What it does is it tries to recognize any characters near where your mouse is pointed and displays them in an text box for copy purposes. It also gives a list of visually similar Kanji that it thinks the particular characters near your cursor might be, just in case it's wrong (which is around 20% of the time), so it's generally quite easy to choose the right character.

It takes some getting used to, as it's very quirky (you'll be toggling the "Automatic OCR" option a lot due to it recognizing arbitrary shapes as characters), but it's actually quite useful. I use it whenever I'm desperate to figure out some particular line's meaning in a hentai or something. It might only take me around 5-10 minutes (depending on word count) to grab an entire page's worth of Kanji.

<<kanjitomo.net/|Check it out!>>

Just thought it was a useful little thing to share.

Ogodei-Khan said:
(seriously, most of the time i spend is leafing through jisho's "kanji by radicals")

Ogodei-Khan said:
Holy crap that tool *is* magic. If it turns the kanji into an actual string, then i can just punch it into jisho and go, which would reduce the amount of time i spend on translations by, like, half

(seriously, most of the time i spend is leafing through jisho's "kanji by radicals")

PomPom said:
I know that pain @_@ especially when a kanji looks like it has one radical but it's really a radical that has multiple smaller ones in it >_>

PomPom said:
FYI I highly recommend turning off the automatic OCR and opening the image directly in the program and using the zoom function. The little red box flipping out wherever my mouse went was driving me crazy lol

Its pretty accurate for me as long as I was zoomed in, although trying to read kanji in browser it was pretty much random.

Cradily said:
Okay, I'm not sure if I want to continue translating this. The main character is stupid, which I can somewhat accept, but his heavy slang usage is really screwing up my translating attempts/annoying the crap out of me.

Also it looks like the girls get permanently turned into dolls? And he puts them up on display? But there are so many future problems with that...

I'll go and type in all the Japanese text into the rest of the pages in case anyone else wants to try. (May have typos)

PomPom said:
I might be able to take a look at it next week and try my hand, although I'm not too familiar with slang stuff either :/

Also that Pudding hypno-doujin translation I'm working on that's still only half done >_>