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Are there any tools I can use for translating a ~400 pages scanned book? (piefed.social)
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Situation: I got a scanned book that I'd like to read that is in chinese and has no available translation. I really want to read it, because it would probably help a lot with my university project.

What I tried: tried creating a version with ocr to get a text layer and use some translation tool on it, but found no way to make the ocr text visible. I also tried this tool, but the ocr didn't work for me, and I found no way to use it with some local model

Have any of you ever done a similar task? I'd appreciate any kind of suggestions and tips.

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[โ€“] gramie@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Which Google lens work? And take a picture of each page and feed it to the Google translate engine. It might be the easiest way.

[โ€“] morto@piefed.social 3 points 15 hours ago

I'm not sure if it would be viable for a long book, and I'm also avoiding google, but thanks for helping. I got some nice suggestions in this thread.