by ExtraStiffy » Wed, 13Sep18 04:34
Mmm.... Not really. Both Free-OCR and online ocr (essentially the same programming) only pull from the following: Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
With the possible exception of some of the Indonesian and/or Vietnamese, all of the other languages are Occidental (even with Cyrillic Greek and/or Russian tossed in). Neither one of them is aimed at translating Japanese into English. I was really hoping for something where I could just pull (copy) a line of text, plug (paste) into the handy-dandy translate program, and get the more-or-less-relevant English translation, because I really don't want to have to save each line of text, then search through reams of Japanese symbols to find the identical kanji, only to have to retype those same characters into the translator.
Don't sweat the petty things. And while you're at it... don't pet the sweaty things.