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1 Reply ・ Started by MichaelC at 2022-05-16 22:02:30 UTC ・ Last reply by eyrewiut at 2022-05-19 20:00:08 UTC

Digital capture of kanji from print?

Does anyone know of a program that can use a photographed or scanned image of kanji into a form to input to jisho? My problem is that I'm trying to work on paper/printed texts using many kanji, but would be much helped if I could scan such text and use some optical character recognition so I could enter the kanji into jisho. I sometimes use jisho's Draw facility, but shaking hands and bad penmanship make it useful for only the simplest kanji.

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eyrewiut at 2022-05-19 20:00:08 UTC

Google docs actiually has an OCR feature. If you upload a photo of your document to google drive, you can then right-click on it and choose "Google Docs" in the "Open with" dropdown.
It will create a google doc with the image as well as the scanned text.

Another option is google lens, I think this is included on android phones, or as an app: https://lens.google

It seems the camera app on my iPad also has a OCR feature, if you take a photo and look it in the gallery there is an icon in the bottom-right to go into some sort of OCR mode.

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