OCR version "almost" ready

Smidge204 · Post by **Smidge204** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:23 pm

I have successfully scanned Volume 9 and converted it to SJIS encoded text. The program I used (Kanji OCR) seems surprisingly accurate, but it still need to be proofread. Proofreading will take me about... three months at this rate. *grin*

Anyway, I got 282 text files now, which need to be looked at and edited (to move the furigana back into position) but are otherwise ready. I'll give them to anyone interested on a per-chapter basis only, which of course would include the raw scans (1-bit bitmaps) used in the OCR process. Each chapter is about 5MB RAR'd.

Let me know what chapter you want, if you're interested.
=Smidge=

onizuka-gto · Post by **onizuka-gto** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:19 pm

hey, does the software work for english too?

I'm quite interested in that software as well, any pointers where i can get it?

Kanzar · Post by **Kanzar** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:08 pm

There are plenty of OCRs for English - many scanners come with OCR software.

Smidge204 · Post by **Smidge204** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:57 am

I believe it does work for English. The catch is I'm using a demo version that can only be used 20 times / 15 days and there's no crack for it that I could find... I work around the problem by running it in a virtual machine and using a snapshot taken just before I ran it for the first time

Otherwise it's $99 - $395.

As Kanzar said, there's LOTS of software out there to handle English and nearly all scanners come with something you can use. Asian languages... not so much, it seems. Anyone here living in eastern Asia happen to but a scanner recently?
=Smidge=

onizuka-gto · Post by **onizuka-gto** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:34 am

i need a scanner, i might buy one.

the question is whether it will come with ocr software, and if i can fool the seller im a local and not try and rip me off with tourist prices...

Smidge204 · Post by **Smidge204** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:53 am

There's always mail-order

=Smidge=

LQY · Post by **LQY** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:03 am

onizuka-gto wrote:i need a scanner, i might buy one.

the question is whether it will come with ocr software, and if i can fool the seller im a local and not try and rip me off with tourist prices...

How about my scan file?

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:38 am

An OCR puts the scanned file into a text format that can be copy/pasted just like the text on this post. Is your scan in a text document?

LQY · Post by **LQY** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:39 am

Dan wrote:An OCR puts the scanned file into a text format that can be copy/pasted just like the text on this post. Is your scan in a text document?

Personally I do not trust OCR because it provide a lot of proof reading and I do not think it can save time.

I prefer to read the paper and translate it at same time

BTW, if I am good in Japanese, I will join this team^^

Kanzar · Post by **Kanzar** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:14 pm

My HP printer comes with OCR software, and even if your scanner doesn't come with one, it isn't TOO hard to find one.

How bad was the lead I gave you, Smidge?

Smidge204 · Post by **Smidge204** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 2:24 pm

Not so great. There was no Asian language support at all that I could find. :/

Thanks anyway, though!
=Smidge=

onizuka-gto · Post by **onizuka-gto** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:15 pm

LQY wrote:
Dan wrote:An OCR puts the scanned file into a text format that can be copy/pasted just like the text on this post. Is your scan in a text document?
Personally I do not trust OCR because it provide a lot of proof reading and I do not think it can save time.

I prefer to read the paper and translate it at same time

BTW, if I am good in Japanese, I will join this team^^

if you can read chinese, real or screwed you can still join this team.

Kanzar · Post by **Kanzar** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:52 pm

Smidge204 wrote:Not so great. There was no Asian language support at all that I could find. :/

Thanks anyway, though!
=Smidge=

Eh? It said it did have the support on their main site... =.=

LQY · Post by **LQY** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 12:36 am

onizuka-gto wrote:
LQY wrote: Personally I do not trust OCR because it provide a lot of proof reading and I do not think it can save time.
I prefer to read the paper and translate it at same time
BTW, if I am good in Japanese, I will join this team^^
if you can read chinese, real or screwed you can still join this team.

Of course, I can read Chinese but I would not use it as translation material because Taiwan Kadokawa's translation version is not really absolutely correct translation from the original Japanese^^||

Well, I prefer to give some advice while you are translating.

Post by **HolyCow** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 4:08 am

Unfortunately some of us translators (like me) can't do Jap --> Eng so the only choice would be to do Chi --> Eng