Re: Scanning in Chinese on English XP
- From: "James E Middleton" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:18:54 +0900
You'll need OCR software that supports the language you want to scan. I
often scan Japanese documents on an English OS. However, before placing the
scanned text into a word document, I process it with Japanese OCR software
that came bundled with the scanner. A possible solution: Go to the support
site for your scanner - look for the drivers and tools for the scanner in
Chinese - download, install & test. Note: the drivers will not do the OCR,
but usually, the manufacturer also offers 'tools' basic picture scanning,
document organizing, OCR utilities. Both Canon and Epson have software
available on their sites. The OCR tools that are available are not as
powerful as a 3rd party programs, but do the basics.
"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OBbuFdhIGHA.3816@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
akortiz wrote:
Hi All-
I am not sure if I am in the right forum, but I am attempting to scan
in Chinese text with a hand held scanner (Penpower Super Scaneye). I
have set up the Asian support in XP Pro (English) and can type in with
the soft keyboard (i.e. ????) and Chinese characters do appear
in any document I wish.
My problem is when inputting Chinese via the hand held scanner, all I
get is jibberish.
Can the IME be configured to read from a scanner, instead of a
keyboard?
Also, when I scan in English, that works properly.
I have installed the accompanying software.
If any one has any suggestions, they would be most appreciated.
A scanner creates a *picture* of the document you scan. To turn that
picture into text requires a program of a type called Optical Character
Recognition (OCR). Such a program has the ability to look at the picture
and recognize text characters within it. For example, I use an OCR program
called OmniPage to do this. It recognizes English on a scanned document
and converts it to text.
As far as I know, OmniPage doesn't recognize Chinese characters, but there
are probably other OCR programs that do. I've never had any need of one,
so I can't tell you which programs can do what you want. I'm not familiar
with the software you are using, so can't tell you whether it can
recognize Chinese characters, but it would seem from what you say that it
can not.
Setting up Asian Language support in Windows XP is completely irrelevant.
The only thing relevant is whether the particular OCR software you are
using supports Chinese Characters. If it doesn't, you'll need to buy
another product to do this.
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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