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Thread poster: Abdul Katawazai
Abdul Katawazai
Abdul Katawazai
Canada
Local time: 06:20
English to Dari
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Jul 22, 2010

I am looking for an OCR soft that can read Japanese language. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mohammad
 
Florence_G (X)
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Local time: 14:20
English to French
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Read Iris Jul 22, 2010

I'm using Read Iris Pro Asian since a long time.

As any OCR program, it's not perfect but it really, really helps.

Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean recognition
Only available on:
- Readiris Pro 12 Asian
- Readiris Corporate 12 Asian

System requirements
- An Intel® Pentium® based PC or equivalent is recommended.
- 256 MB RAM.
- 120 MB free disk space. 105 MB of disk space suffices when you d... See more
I'm using Read Iris Pro Asian since a long time.

As any OCR program, it's not perfect but it really, really helps.

Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean recognition
Only available on:
- Readiris Pro 12 Asian
- Readiris Corporate 12 Asian

System requirements
- An Intel® Pentium® based PC or equivalent is recommended.
- 256 MB RAM.
- 120 MB free disk space. 105 MB of disk space suffices when you do not install the sample files.
- The Windows® 7, Windows® Vista, Windows® XP operating system (32 & 64 bits).

- Scanners supported: Acer, Agfa, Black Widow, Brother, Canon, Compaq, Epson, Escom, Fujitsu, Genius, HP, Kodak, Lexmark, Logitech, Microtek, Mustek, Niscan, Primax, Ricoh, Silitek, Tamarack, Umax, Visioneer, Xerox, Yellow Dragon etc. and all other Twain compliant devices.

Digital Cameras supported: Canon, Casio, Fuji, HP, Kodak - All TIFF and JPEG formats generated by digital cameras are recognized. ▲ Collapse
 
Katalin Horváth McClure
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United States
Local time: 08:20
Member (2002)
English to Hungarian
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Past discussion on the Japanese forum pages Jul 23, 2010

The topic of Japanese OCR was discussed in detail a while ago, I hope this helps:

http://www.proz.com/forum/japanese_日本語/20190-ocr_software_for_japanese:_recommendations.html


Katalin
 
Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.)
Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.)  Identity Verified
Thailand
Local time: 19:20
English to Thai
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PDF file Jul 23, 2010

For PDF files, Acrobat Professional is a good OCR for Japanese I always use.
For scanned document, I use Yonde!! koko Ver. 8.
 
Abdul Katawazai
Abdul Katawazai
Canada
Local time: 06:20
English to Dari
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Thanks Jul 29, 2010

Thanks everyone for the help.


Mohammad
 


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