Paul Duke
进士
Hi, I'm trying to read "The Fat Years" in Chinese and I'm having trouble cutting and pasting text from the PDF (which apparently is an official version posted by the author) into Wenlin. When I cut and paste I get a mess of unreadable codes. I have tried many software applications to read and re-save PDFs, but nothing works. I get the same mess everytime.
I tried using the OCR function on Pleco on my iPhone but the text is simply too small for Pleco to recognize it. Hmm, maybe if I had an iPad?
Years ago I bought a scanner which had excellent OCR software which handled Chinese very well. I don't have access to a scanner anymore but I searched around for OCR software which can do the job with image files. Seems they are all pretty expensive. There's a program called Abbyy Fine Reader but it is $99 in the app store. I recall that my scanner cost less than that and the software came with it for free!
Any suggestions of how to inexpensively perform OCR on a PDF file so that I can convert it to a workable text file and move it into a Chinese dictionary program, Pleco and/or Wenlin?
If you don't know the "Fat Years" here's a NY Times profile of the author:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/30/world ... lobal-home
thanks
PD
I tried using the OCR function on Pleco on my iPhone but the text is simply too small for Pleco to recognize it. Hmm, maybe if I had an iPad?
Years ago I bought a scanner which had excellent OCR software which handled Chinese very well. I don't have access to a scanner anymore but I searched around for OCR software which can do the job with image files. Seems they are all pretty expensive. There's a program called Abbyy Fine Reader but it is $99 in the app store. I recall that my scanner cost less than that and the software came with it for free!
Any suggestions of how to inexpensively perform OCR on a PDF file so that I can convert it to a workable text file and move it into a Chinese dictionary program, Pleco and/or Wenlin?
If you don't know the "Fat Years" here's a NY Times profile of the author:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/30/world ... lobal-home
thanks
PD