Useful translation tool.
May. 8th, 2011 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snarpCapture2Text will run OCR on a selection of Japanese text in an image and copy the results to the clipboard.
The big caveat is that, as far as I can tell, it always reads horizontally, left-to-right-then-up-to-down, meaning that you have to select columns of up-to-down-then-right-to-left text one at a time. So you can't use it to dump a whole page of text, but it looks like it'd be useful for finding a few unknown kanji quickly.
(I acknowledge that this is mostly important to me because I'm terrible at getting the Windows IME Pad to recognize my handwriting. I usually end up using my DS dictionary.)
My virus scanner keeps complaining about it, but that appears to be a false positive.
The big caveat is that, as far as I can tell, it always reads horizontally, left-to-right-then-up-to-down, meaning that you have to select columns of up-to-down-then-right-to-left text one at a time. So you can't use it to dump a whole page of text, but it looks like it'd be useful for finding a few unknown kanji quickly.
(I acknowledge that this is mostly important to me because I'm terrible at getting the Windows IME Pad to recognize my handwriting. I usually end up using my DS dictionary.)
My virus scanner keeps complaining about it, but that appears to be a false positive.
