Is there a program out there that will read Japanese from a scanned document with some sort of OCR technology, then translate and convert it to some sort of file or annotation in English?

7/13/2012 8:23:21 PM

post it rightcheer

7/13/2012 9:42:19 PM

hard to find free ones

the documents don't happen to be patents do they? there's a thing on the Japanese Patent Office website that does machine translations, but only for a certain range of years, it's weird

7/13/2012 11:12:02 PM

Is it one document or are you trying to do a lot of this? My mother literally did this for AT&T for years for their products.

7/14/2012 2:34:12 AM

I don't have any examples to post here, and I don't care about free or not. Yes this would be used a lot, basically to save people time translating.

7/14/2012 6:56:49 AM

Here's a few things google turns up, but I don't know how useful they are.
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
http://code.google.com/p/nhocr/

7/14/2012 8:52:31 AM