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stinkwheel
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PostPosted: 17:45 - 17 Jan 2023    Post subject: Text recognition software? Reply with quote

I have a scanned workshop manual for a Belarussian bike I'd like to translate. It's got detailed information of crank rebuilds and suchlike.

It's in Russian Cyrillic. Google translate can't cope.

I had some success running a couple of pages through an online OCR site then running the result through google translate but it's very time consuming and they only do so many pages free, I'm looking at about 90 pages.

Ideally I want to split it into individual pages, paste the diagrams into a publishing suite then run the text parts through a local text recognition app. translate it and paste that in too so I make up a proper English workshop manual.

Any recommendations for decent text recognition software that will handle Cyrillic? Searching suggests Tesseract is probably a good option.

Would ideally be to run on Linux (debian). I have a windows PC but it's a small notebook so will probably take ages to churn out graphic related stuff, also no mouse.
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PostPosted: 12:12 - 23 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://pyimagesearch.com/2021/09/20/language-translation-and-ocr-with-tesseract-and-python/

was the first thing I found too but wonder about context in translation with techy stuff.
I can see it coming out like one of those tortured chinglish instruction
manuals

might be easier to learn a bit of Russian or buy a Russian speaker a drink
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PostPosted: 14:15 - 23 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Google translate actually does a fairly good job of the actual translation once you have the text. There's the occasional "When passing a sporting horse, do not loudly tootle your horn parper." moment but on the whole, you can tell what it means.

It's the text recognition bit it couldn't cope with. I managed to get teseract up and running but it really struggled. Even when I broke it down into blocks of text and ran it through some image manipulation to clear it up I was still getting more gaps than text.

It looks like the online one is going to be the way forwards, I may have to just pay for some useage and rattle it all through. I'll get it all broken down into sections ahead of time and set up onto pages because they charge per page.

Convertio has been the best tool so far. It seems remarkably good at intelligantly filling in any blanks/smeared text.
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stinkwheel
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PostPosted: 22:58 - 23 Jan 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quietly impressed. It turned this (upscaled and unsharp masked image).

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AMWts8Cx7cZrzSI5K3P0GlpJEz4SLn-Y4q9KMoCDW5-I-FgxM_sJjSWTZVTYCUFyfwfct7AyjjoHFh-b61haxFqi7dzk74vWYXiYYdG1RniL_mAn78fGfA_l7ruXasG15I7F-g88WENzNP_k7luzgMiunLxc=w226-h800-no

Into this:
Quote:
Обороты при макси­мальной мощности, об/мни.
Карбюратор
Воздухофильтр
Топливо
Емкость бензобака, л
Максимальный крутящий момент, к гс* м
Моторная передача Передаточное число Сиеплсние Число ведущих дисков
Коробка передач Передаточные числа


The google translate gave me this:
Quote:
Turnovers at maximum power, rpm.
Carburetor
air filter
Fuel
Fuel tank capacity, l
Maximum torque, to gf * m
Motor transmission Gear ratio Sieplesnie Number of drive discs
Gearbox Gear ratios


I'm guessing Sieplesnie is clutch.

EDIT: Also incognito mode for the win. Resets the online OCR page count!
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PostPosted: 14:50 - 05 Feb 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool
I love that we can always rely on you to have some interesting off the wall shit going on Wub

Can you post a link to the online OCR page pls
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PostPosted: 16:43 - 05 Feb 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://convertio.co/ocr/russian/

It turns out that Russian for "sparkplug" is the same word as Russian for "candle".
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PostPosted: 20:05 - 05 Feb 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is this the beginning of a Russian version of a two Ronnies sketch?
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