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What reading somewhat can OCR East Asian languages then easily allow me to check dictionary for words?
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I'm not super familiar with the subject but it'll probably be something based on Tesseract.
Maybe try gImageReader.
You can use
tesseract -l jpn input.png -on the command line to have it print out the text from input.png into the console if you've got the language files for Japanese installed. (There's also language files for vertical text and a few others for script in my package manager.) Alternatively give the filename (w/o extension) instead of-to write the output into a.txtfile.On Mint, I think I did
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-jpnto get it working for the simple case of horizontal text; been a while though.