I have a reader that has kanji/kana and romaji transcriptions.

The trouble is, I don't like the font used for the kanji/kana (it's what I call "chickenscratch" writing--looks like the kanji and kana were handwritten and it's frankly small and messy and hard to read). PLUS, it's written in vertical columns from right to left.

Other than this, the reader is quite good which excellent footnotes.

I COULD re-type the passages myself in Word using the Japanese software on my computer but that would take too long.

If I could scan the romaji, OCR it and copy and paste it into a web page that would convert it that would be nice (but I suspect this doesn't exist).

But it never hurts to ask.... Thanks.

I would guess that romaji -> kanji conversion would require so much manual intervention that you might as well just type it out yourself.

That or find some reading material that doesn't require so much faffing about

Google Translate does something like this. You select Japanese as input, paste some romaji and it will say "did you mean" with the kanji conversion there.

anotherjohn Wrote:I would guess that romaji -> kanji conversion would require so much manual intervention that you might as well just type it out yourself.

That or find some reading material that doesn't require so much faffing about

I may just put up with it since the material itself and the footnotes are good.

There are 20 reading selections. The first 16 are in the handwritten chicken scratch style; the last four are in a proper typeface.

The authors claim in the introduction that they wanted to get the reader used to Japanese handwriting and also see how the characters should be written by hand but personally I think they did it to save typesetting costs.

While you are at Google type something like "romaji kana conversion" and you will find the websites.

There will be manual correction efforts afterwords.

Perhaps you just make enlarged copies to enhance readability.