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Are there any tools I can use for translating a ~400 pages scanned book? (piefed.social)

submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Situation: I got a scanned book that I'd like to read that is in chinese and has no available translation. I really want to read it, because it would probably help a lot with my university project.

What I tried: tried creating a version with ocr to get a text layer and use some translation tool on it, but found no way to make the ocr text visible. I also tried this tool, but the ocr didn't work for me, and I found no way to use it with some local model

Have any of you ever done a similar task? I'd appreciate any kind of suggestions and tips.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

i did this with a chinese book, but have to check what i used.

The translation was entirely readable.

i think i used tesseract.

No, GImagereader!

that was it.

tesseract was also very straightforward, but gimage reader had a GUI, and all I had to do was import the file and then click export and it did the whole thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I used tesseract, but the output pdf didn't have visible text, and I found no way to change it. Maybe I don't know how to properly use it., or it's not intended to keep formatting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

try gImagereader.

it's a frontend to tesseract and is more workable via its GUI and option menus.

Load the file, execute the program.

That's all I had to do for a successful OCR.