Ask HN: Best way to digitize and translate printed articles?

1 points by kdom13 7y ago ↗ HN

I have a bunch of newspaper clippings and pages from old articles about my grandfather, all in Swedish.

I would like to digitize all articles and translate them to English in a semi-automated way. I know little Swedish so I can't translate them myself, plus there's over 100 article clippings.

Has anyone ever been through this process or something similar? I would appreciate any tips on what software to use.

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jppope 7y ago ↗

Theres a series of Optical Character Recognition repos that should help you with task #1. They are all based around Google's Tesseract. If I remember correctly this is one of the top=> https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless I've used project naptha in the past... and little known fact that google docs can do the OCR automatically too.

regarding the translation... never had to do it. sorry!

kdom13 7y ago ↗

Paperless looks great, thanks!