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9601387 No.9601387 [Reply] [Original]

I'll be blunt. I'm trying to translate Otorimonogatari for myself. My first step in trying to do that is to convert the scans of the book into text. It's going very slowly because I can't type japanese, so I've mostly been using an open source OCR program. It's mostly effective, but I still have to tediously proofread it because it gets a lot of characters wrong.
Can anyone get their hands on the font used for this book? If I had that, I could make the OCR program way more accurate and this would go much faster.

>> No.9601408

You can't type in Japanese, yet you're trying to translate a novel? Good luck with that.

>> No.9601409

>I can't type japanese
Please elaborate.

>> No.9601416

>>9601409
Err, I mean I can't fluently type on a japanese keyboard, even if I set the keyboard to japanese in windows.

>> No.9601439

Why are you asking here?

>> No.9601455

>>9601416
I'm probably just slow, but now I'm even more confused now.

>> No.9601472

Why are you people over thinking things?
He can read Japanese.
He's not good with Japanese keyboards.

>> No.9601481

>>9601472
Why are you samefagging?

>> No.9601483

>>9601472
If he could read Japanese, why couldn't he just, y'know, read the scans instead of bothering with the whole OCR business?

>> No.9601501

>>9601483
Perhaps he would like to not read off of bitmaps?
I know it might sound odd.

Does anybody know if somebody has already OCR'd Zaregoto?
If not, I might attempt to do so. (The english version)

>> No.9601512

>>9601416
Holy fuck, are you seriously telling me you don't know about IMEs?

>> No.9601535

>>9601501
There is one of volume 1. As for volume 2, there is a typed up version of the prologue, but no more to my knowledge.

>> No.9601551

You can read Japanese but you don't know how to type Japanese with latin characters and an AMERICAN keyboard? Are you kidding me?

>> No.9601558

>>9601512
No, I mean I don't speak, read, or type japanese. I'm transcribing the characters into a word processor so I can give (roughly) translating it a try later. (I did look up the basics on writing japanese, though)

>> No.9601560

I think he doesn't know about romaji input in the IME. He is probably talking about not being able to fluently use kana input.
Right?

>> No.9601563

>>9601560
Right, that's why I've been using the OCR.

>> No.9601568

>>9601558
I don't even know how to read Japanese but I know how to type Japanese.

Get your priorities right, son.

>> No.9601581

Is IME easy to set up on W7? Right now I just have kana.

>> No.9601588

>>9601439
Well, I was either going to post on /a/ or here, and... well...
Look, can anyone tell me where I might get a similar font, or someone who can? I've been trying to google it but I haven't been able to find a good source.

>> No.9601598

>>9601581
Yes.

Hell, most 日本人 use romaji to type their 漢字.

>> No.9601607

>>9601568
You are the one who needs to get his priorities right.

>> No.9601612

>>9601607
Fuck you ふぁっごっと

>> No.9601616

>>9601612
＞ｈａｇｇｏｔ
ｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗ

>> No.9601619

>>9601612
日本語でおｋｘD

>> No.9601630

日本 my cock

Get it? Nip on my cock?

>> No.9602004
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>>9601387
OP, 日本語タイプできません。
ｗｗｗｗｗｗ

PS: 私は日本語わかりません。

>> No.9602014

how do those nips read vertically
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>> No.9602042

>>9602014

I can read that just fine

>> No.9603683
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>>9601387
or use a better ocr

>> No.9603699

fuk offf weeeb

>> No.9603714

>>9601558
It is going to be very hard to understand the Japanese if you just translate it with a dictionary. Strange particles, verb forms, slang and abbreviations, etc. will be hard to figure out.

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9603911

then run it through a text-to-speech reader

[click here to listen]

>> No.9603919
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9603919

then run it through a text-to-speech reader

[click here to listen]

>> No.9604010

how much better is 読んde!!ココ than realreader? should i go look for a download for this program or did you purchase it?

>> No.9604032

>>9601558
I once tried to read Nekomonogatari and trust me, it's difficult as hell.
If you're not fluent in Japanese you're wasting your time trying to translate it.
It would be nice if someone translated all the monogatari series though.
Who's the one translating random koimonogatari's chapters?

>> No.9604073

>>9604010
there's a ddl. check /rs/ for yonde (might be dead tho)

>> No.9604087
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9604087

A good step would probably be realizing that people already did what you're trying to do and that you can easily find the book in text form in PD.
Just saying, though.

>> No.9604103

>>9604073
i couldn't find it on /rs/, but found a torrent. hoping it isn't just a botnet.

>> No.9604150

>>9604087
it doesn't make sense that recently released light novels are tagged as 青空文庫. they aren't actually in the 青空　collection so it isn't that easy.

>> No.9604157

>>9604150
They're not usually tagged as 青空文庫, but rather 青空文庫対応txt形式
Meaning that they're in the text-format used by 青空文庫 (which has mark-up for ruby, image inclusion, etc.)

>> No.9604161

>>9604157
that makes sense then. i just found some link with only the name of book and tag of aozora bunko off google when i tried to find what you showed.

>> No.9604396

>>9604103
>but found a torrent. hoping it isn't just a botnet.
How is it going? My share downloads are all stuck.

>> No.9604462

>>9604396
Not the guy you're replying to, but I've used first link which appears in google search when i type 読んde!!ココ torrent.
I've downloaded it without any problems. My antyvirus application says that the patch attached to it is dangerous, but I've installed application without patching and everything (even with all errors during installation) works fine so far. Not fluent enough in japanese to figure everything out tho.

>> No.9604463

>>9604462

Please link to the torrent, I'd like to try it

>> No.9604491

>>9604462
Thank you

>> No.9604511

>>9604463
>Please link to the torrent

Oops, nevermind, didn't read the whole post.

>> No.9604514

>>9604491
You're welcome.
I'll probably figure it out later, but if you happen to find out how does extracting txt from picture works, feel free to leave info here, if you find some free time.

>> No.9604962
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9604962

>>9604514
Drag and drop image, select the text, click on the second button from the right (the one with a あ)

>> No.9605053

>>9604962
Thanks, works just fine.

>> No.9605590

>>9604462
>>9604962
>>9605053

This shows when I try to install it. I haven't changed the region settings but I don't think that's the problem.
My antivirus also blocked the patch file

>> No.9605659

>>9605590
You don't need the crack, apparently.

>> No.9605740

>>9605590
>>9605659
I'd forgotten the picture (it's not this one).
It's working now, thanks.

I guess some of the buttons showing "????" is because of the region settings?
I've heard of AppLocale, but I still haven't looked it up.

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>>9605740
Wow, forgot again

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