In particular, these misses were unexpected: Nevertheless, the low rate came as a surprise. I don't expect 100% success rate from this data - there are 2 characters too smudged beyond recognition. List of invalid detection, with the format actual (wrong) SmartOCR failed completely on the thick fonts in 2nd 4koma.Īnother flaw: SmartOCR always failed to detect double punctuation marks (!! and !?) - granted, some are quite close to the marks. Observing the ん character in 2nd 4koma reveals there are at least 3 different fonts. The biggest miss came from different fonts. As shown in the following table, the success rate is merely 60%. The overall performance, however, is a different story. On the same phrase (でもこの年になって) used to test KanjiTomo, SmartOCR managed to read them flawlessly. Html has different problem - some characters might be detected but not displayed due to css bug.To read it you'll need Notepad++ and select Encoding > Character Sets > Japanese > Shift-JS. If you save it to txt, it would be unreadable in Notepad.(Ignoring the fact that result window is dominated with ? - instead of proper characters) Save the result into html.On the result window - to the left of image window - change display mode (表示モード) to horizontal (横書き).
Vertical japanese ocr install#
Install SmartOCR Lite (The original download link is down and I got my copy from a server that is inaccessible from other countries).Test data was created by basic copy-n-paste operations there was no extra effort to sharpen the characters or to clean the surrounding (from light gray spots). It's easier to order the source once rather than to re-order the result as many times as the number of tests. Feeding a whole page causes false detection (ex: a picture of mouth is detected as a character).This tedious extra step is required because: Test data consists of 3 strips of 4koma manga removing all pictures and realigning the characters. Since this application is a product - instead of individual effort - I have higher expectation hence a more thorough test.
Vertical japanese ocr how to#
Since I have no idea how to troubleshoot I put this one aside I tried several times in Windows XP never worked.
Vertical japanese ocr free#
While trying to find free applications that rely on EDict, I found these: From what I could gather, the dictionary data is based on EDict, maintained by Jim Breen, Monash University. Yet two decades is a long time for stagnation, thus I tried to find a better variant. Until now I still think this is the best (and free) Japanese dictionary. For around 2 decades I have JDict, a Japanese dictionary application.