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keshab Local time: 00:13 Member (2006) English to Bengali + ...
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Oct 23, 2005
Hello everybody! perhaps this type of problem discussed earlier.But at this moment I need your help.I know that OCR software can convert image into text.But when I am going to translate a comics,a peculiar situation arises.the OCR software( I'm using 'Simple OCR')converts everything into text i.e. alongwith text,picture also converts into characters. How can I translate the text of the comics which is originally in English and have to translate into Indic language?
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Juan Perello Chile Local time: 14:43 Member (2005) Japanese to Spanish + ...
highlighting only the text portion of the image
Oct 23, 2005
Hi Keshab,
Your OCR program should allow you to highlight only some portions of the image. So, instead of applying the OCR to the whole image, you'd have to select only the text you need and leave out the images. Unfortunately, this can be a very time-consuming task.
I Hope it helps.
Juan Luis
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Samuel Murray Netherlands Local time: 20:43 Member (2006) English to Afrikaans + ...
Upgrade to GOCR, and blank out the images
Oct 24, 2005
keshab wrote: But when I am going to translate a comics,a peculiar situation arises, the OCR software (I'm using 'Simple OCR') converts everything into text ie alongwith text, picture also converts into characters.
Which version of SimpleORC are you using? AFAIK, SimpleOCR is built on the GOCR engine, and GOCR is free (open source). In fact, AFAIK GOCR's newest engine isn't even used in SimpleOCR (correct me if I'm wrong). So why not download GOCR and give it a go?
To use GOCR, you'll need to have your image in PNM format, but that can be done using DJPEG, using the command: djpeg -gray -pnm foo.jpg > foo.pnm The command for GOCR is: gocr -i foo.pnm -o foo.txt
But first, open the image in a program that can edit the image (if you're using Windows, you can convert the image to BMP and then edit with MS Paint). Turn the images into white blocks so that only the text is visible. Then do the OCR on it.
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