HypnoHub - Grabbing Japanese Text from an Image

jacethenewguy

01/06/20 02:03AM

Grabbing Japanese Text from an Image

So I've taken a recent interest on some stuff on pixiv. Thing is, alot of it is in Japanese and not in an easily copied text format.

Anyone know of a tool that could be fed an image, and pull the Japanese text off that image? It'd help alot with translating.

IDPet

01/06/20 02:48AM

Hmm, programs tends to be problems to detect some characters depending of the author writting. You could try the manual way:

1-Go to google translator
2-Japanese - English
3-Enable the touch writting and try to draw the japanese characters, the system will show you the Japanese characters that looks like your drawing.
4- repeat with every character.
5- paste the results in a document in order to save it.

Also, you can try this:

www.i2ocr.com/free-online-japanese-ocr

Requisites:
The picture must to be clean, just the text, so you would need to extract the text with prohoshop or similar programs..

jacethenewguy

01/07/20 05:24AM

IDPet said:
Hmm, programs tends to be problems to detect some characters depending of the author writting. You could try the manual way:

1-Go to google translator
2-Japanese - English
3-Enable the touch writting and try to draw the japanese characters, the system will show you the Japanese characters that looks like your drawing.
4- repeat with every character.
5- paste the results in a document in order to save it.

Also, you can try this:

www.i2ocr.com/free-online-japanese-ocr

Requisites:
The picture must to be clean, just the text, so you would need to extract the text with prohoshop or similar programs..

Thanks, it's been working so far

AgaresOaks

01/07/20 05:57AM

www.kanjitomo.net

If you've got a fairly clean and standard-ish text it works decently. Big plus is that it's not absolute cancer to select a different kanji if it OCRs wrong, minus is you can't do large chunks of text at once and it sometimes groups things really weirdly. (like sometimes if you have an ~i adjective it'll decide the i belongs to the next word for some reason)