Chinese language support for Microsoft Office, which isn't exactly something you come across easily.If you don't have those two installed on your computer, modify your Office setup to include them. Microsoft Office 2007 (though this supposedly works with Microsoft Office 2003): installed with "Document Imaging" and "Picture Manager", both are components that you can select during the setup process.This tutorial requires the following software to be installed on your computer: Export the text to Microsoft Word then translate it.Open the TIF image with Microsoft Office Document Imaging, run the OCR.(Optional) Convert your photo to a TIF image.Take a photo with your digital camera, or scan your document with your scanner.TLDR: there are basically four steps involved in the process: I've tried out the demo version and am seriously considering purchasing the full version. If you're interested on doing the same, real time and in a much simpler way directly from your iPhone, I recommend the excellent Pleco. The solution I describe is for PC/Windows users only. OCR, which stands for Optical Character Recognition, is the principle of proceeding to the digital analysis of an image to extract the characters/text that it contains, in order to be able to manipulate the text on a computer. I've always known of expensive solutions such as Ominpage Pro, but I refused to resort to purchasing the app considering its price and how little I would need it. I had no idea that Office 2007 came with such features. The solution was right under my eyes all this time: Microsoft Office 2007. That is not enough to understand a full, complex text.Īfter months of research I've finally figured out how to recognize chinese characters automatically from a picture, in order to copy/paste the text into a translator such as Google translate or others.
Having lived in China for almost 3 years now I am able to recognize a good bunch of characters, I can type in Chinese on the computer too but writing is much easier than reading since it doesn't require you to actually memorize the characters, you just type in pinyin (phonetics).
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