Chinese OCR

Toxaris · 11-13-2011, 08:38 AM

Currently I am working on a book of Judge Tie. Sometimes chinese characters are used and, perfectionist as I am, I want to include the chinese characters. Adding the characters in itself will not be an issue, but OCR the characters would be.

I have tried several online OCR services, but so far almost 50% is not recognized. What also will not help, is that the books were printed on rather cheap paper.

Does anyone know of a program/site which will do good OCR or can anybody help me identifying the characters? I think it is a total of around 30-40 words.

I have tried i2OCR, COCR2 and several character drawing apps.

frostschutz · 11-13-2011, 08:41 AM

I don't know Chinese, but for Japanese there are sites like http://jisho.org/kanji/radicals/ that can be very helpful in identifying characters. If you can post a sharp picture of the characters I'm sure someone will be able to help out. Otherwise take the image to any Chinese learners forum.

If all else fails I guess you could just embed the characters as pictures.

DSpider · 11-13-2011, 10:42 AM

http://finereader.abbyy.com/recognition_languages

Chinese is in there.

bookmeal · 11-14-2011, 07:11 AM

I was looking for it too, my friend sent me this:

http://jocr.sourceforge.net/download.html

I haven't try yet. (Let me know if it works too)

If you still have problem, send me the picture file of the 30-40 words, I can type them.

bookmeal · 11-14-2011, 03:38 PM

I downloaded, but couldn't open it.

Toxaris · 11-15-2011, 12:55 AM

I ended up in using ABBY for it, but some characters are not recognized. I think about 80% is recognized.

dancalli · 12-01-2011, 02:55 AM

Have a look at Google's Tesseract OCR. You also need to download the relevant chinese dictionary, either traditional or simplified.

11-13-2011, 08:38 AM	#1
Toxaris Wizard Posts: 4,520 Karma: 121692313 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Heemskerk, NL Device: PRS-T1, Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura	Chinese OCR Currently I am working on a book of Judge Tie. Sometimes chinese characters are used and, perfectionist as I am, I want to include the chinese characters. Adding the characters in itself will not be an issue, but OCR the characters would be. I have tried several online OCR services, but so far almost 50% is not recognized. What also will not help, is that the books were printed on rather cheap paper. Does anyone know of a program/site which will do good OCR or can anybody help me identifying the characters? I think it is a total of around 30-40 words. I have tried i2OCR, COCR2 and several character drawing apps.

11-14-2011, 07:11 AM	#4
bookmeal Connoisseur Posts: 67 Karma: 1602 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: benQ	I was looking for it too, my friend sent me this: http://jocr.sourceforge.net/download.html I haven't try yet. (Let me know if it works too) If you still have problem, send me the picture file of the 30-40 words, I can type them. Last edited by bookmeal; 11-14-2011 at 07:14 AM.

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11-13-2011, 08:41 AM	#2
frostschutz Linux User Posts: 2,282 Karma: 6123806 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Heidelberg, Germany Device: none	I don't know Chinese, but for Japanese there are sites like http://jisho.org/kanji/radicals/ that can be very helpful in identifying characters. If you can post a sharp picture of the characters I'm sure someone will be able to help out. Otherwise take the image to any Chinese learners forum. If all else fails I guess you could just embed the characters as pictures.

11-13-2011, 10:42 AM	#3
DSpider Evangelist Posts: 450 Karma: 343115 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Romania Device: PW2 2014	http://finereader.abbyy.com/recognition_languages Chinese is in there.

11-14-2011, 03:38 PM	#5
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12-01-2011, 02:55 AM	#7
dancalli Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2011 Device: PC	Have a look at Google's Tesseract OCR. You also need to download the relevant chinese dictionary, either traditional or simplified.

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