Online Chinese Simplified and Traditional OCR

[Doug 周]

I found an OCR program which is about 95% accurate.
The caveat is that your analog source needs to be good quality and typeset printed.
As a reminder, I have no Chinese language skills. As I look at each character digitized, I feel the accuracy is better than had I used mobile based Pleco OCR www.pleco.com/ on each individual character. However, I am able to upload a whole page of words as a jpg file and the process is much less tedious.
There is no need to load a program onto my workstation; I upload my image file to their site and I download the transcribed text as a text file.
There is a maximum of 10 images transcribed before you pay 8 cents/image uploaded.
convertio.co/ocr/chinese/


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[wang]

Google Docs recognition is more accurate. Upload the file to Google Drive and open it with Google Docs.

[Doug 周]

I use both Convertio and Google Docs because they both catch what the other might miss. Sometimes they both miss the same word and I have to resort to Pleco. Google Docs will only OCR pdf's, where as Convertio will OCR other formats. However, nowadays it is easy to print to pdf.

If you have ANY words of another language, especially English, Google Docs will not translate to Chinese as of today's date. Convertio will translate the from language you pick on the menu.

Using all the tools, I rarely have to depend on my human network. It saves me a lot of favors.