Notes on Reading Japanese Text
Key points
- Choose Japanese
- Read it
- Review it
Steps
- Choose "Japanese" under "Language of the text" in Read Text from Images and PDFs (OCR).
- Read the text.
- Check for look-alike characters, such as the long-vowel mark and the kanji for one, or 0 and O.
Vertical text may not be read well.
Use "Read Text from Images and PDFs (OCR)" (free)
Tools that go well with this
- Extract Text from PDF: Pull the text out of a PDF to copy or save.
- Character Counter (for Applications and Reports): Count characters, lines and manuscript sheets of your text.
- Remove and Tidy Line Breaks in Text: Tidy line breaks in text copied from PDFs and elsewhere.