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Convert image to text?

[Deleted User] · 2011-03-20 21:48:41

I have a magazine scan I'm trying to translate. It's a JPEG image and I've been trying to change it to text, so that I can increase the character size without them becoming distorted. I've managed to change it to PDF format, but have had no luck changing it to text. I've tried a number of programs and they just can't seem…

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20-03-2011 10:48pm

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I have a magazine scan I'm trying to translate. It's a JPEG image and I've been trying to change it to text, so that I can increase the character size without them becoming distorted. I've managed to change it to PDF format, but have had no luck changing it to text. I've tried a number of programs and they just can't seem to recognise JAPANESE characters. Does anyone know a (free) file converter that would do the trick for me?

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#2 23-03-2011 6:08pm
t1mm

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You need some OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software. A quick google returned this:

http://www.simpleocr.com/

Not sure about Japanese characters, however.

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#3 01-04-2011 9:02am
Bellu

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How about try convert the PDF to TXT?
Get Enolsoft PDFconverter to have a try~

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