Anyone using e.Typist 14.0 OCR software?

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Reply #1 - 2013 February 10, 2:58 pm
PotbellyPig Member
From: New York Registered: 2012-01-29 Posts: 337

I've seen some posts here and across the net about the e.Typist OCR software and the fact that it is pretty good for scanning Japanese texts.  I wanted to scan some learning materials and OCR them.  Well, I downloaded the trial of e.Typist 14.0 but I have a problem: All the menu items and some text here and there are junk characters.  I went ahead and changed the interface of Windows 7 to Japanese so that now all the interface items in all my other programs are in Japanese.  I then uninstalled and re-installed e.Typist but I seem to be having the same problem.  I'm probably missing a font somewhere.  Anyone have any ideas?

Reply #2 - 2013 February 10, 6:15 pm
PotbellyPig Member
From: New York Registered: 2012-01-29 Posts: 337

I found out what the main issue was.  It seems to use non-unicode fonts so I had to change the locale to Japan for non-unicode fonts.  I probably didn't have to switch the UI at all.  It does seem like a pretty nice program.  I just took a few tries at it and it does seem to work well, even with some images that are not that good.  They only give you 5 days for the trial and then you have to purchase it.  It's about $100 for the Japanese/English edition and a bit more for the "all language" edition.  If I like it,  I'll have to see if there is a place that will allow me to purchase it from the USA.

Anyone else using this software?

Reply #3 - 2013 February 10, 8:16 pm
ryuudou Member
Registered: 2009-03-05 Posts: 406

I found out what the main issue was.  It seems to use non-unicode fonts so I had to change the locale to Japan for non-unicode fonts.

It's non-unicode text not non-unicode fonts, but yes. This is also true for a lot of other Japanese made software.

Glad you figured it out.

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