I enjoy grabbing sentences and context from Manga because they are less frustrating to read (for now as a beginner) and I enjoy the humour/stories whatever.

Anyways the only flaw with these scanned Mangas is that..I have to type over everything I can't copy+paste text out of images and I have to invest allot of time for a few senteces also because of the fact that its a langauge I do not master fully so typing becomes an even harder task.

Now Im no magician when it comes to computers but isn't there some kind of method to select text in images?

Tips answers anything?

Thank you for your time and attention.

OCR is still pretty shaky when it comes to Japanese, but there is software out there to do it. It's pretty expensive, though.

Personally, I recommend just practicing and you'll get better at it.

I seem to remember someone else was using images from the manga. I think they cropped them to just show the sentence, or maybe the whole panel where the sentence appeared.

P.s. Have you tried vocab cards? Even if you don't like them as much, it might be worth it for the time saved if you're using manga.

Best bet is to find digital sources and use Rikaisama to gather vocabulary and put them into anki. It works and it saves time.

Most manga sentences aren't really full sentences anyway, so it might be more useful to make vocab cards.

Like Splatted said, you can just crop out each panel and put it on the front of the card, somehow marking the sentence you're testing. Although I've been experimenting putting the panel and transcribed sentence on the front with the meanings of all unknown words on the back and it doesn't take me too long to make each card. It also gives me some context for the sentence I'm testing.

Also, you'll get better at typing if you just practice. What I'm doing is using the Tae Kim clozed delete deck and typing out each rep. I've been doing that for about a month so far and I'm already much much faster.

I would advise to not mine manga.
Cropping and OCR takes too much time.

Instead, find digital media that you can copy/paste and use that to mine sentence.

For example:

a news site (fnn-news.com has exact subtitles for all their videos)
magazines (Hiragana Times has a PDF version that you can copy/paste text)
digital novels

Maybe check out Capture2Text if you haven't already.

ta12121 Wrote:Best bet is to find digital sources and use Rikaisama to gather vocabulary and put them into anki. It works and it saves time.

chamcham Wrote:Instead, find digital media that you can copy/paste and use that to mine sentence.

For example:

a news site (fnn-news.com has exact subtitles for all their videos)
magazines (Hiragana Times has a PDF version that you can copy/paste text)
digital novels

With all the respect you guys but the internet is boring and its frustrating to find something fun or interesting in it in Japanese to read (atleast so far). And believe im not the kind of guy who ignores news and stays out of political debates. If you can point me to great fun online enjoyable resourches that can replace easy light fun Manga be my guest and PM me please.

And this capture2text looks interesting ill look into it .

Maybe you are right...practice helps too..but do you have like some tips or something for that?

I didn't use the http://kyoko-np.net myself but it looks more like what you are after. It was suggested in this post:
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid161987