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Recently I obtained a Club-M Minardi M193. The instructions are only in Japanese. Now it's a simple enough kit to build, but you keep wondering what the text says.. I had heard you could do online translation of Japanese, so I scanned the pages, converted the grayscale result to pure black and white, and cropped the individual texts. Then I ran the JPG files through either http://www.i2ocr.com/free-online-japanese-ocr or https://convertio.co/nl/ocr/japanese/ to do the Optical Character Recognition. The results were then copied to https://translate.google.com/, et voila! Some translations are a bit awkward (like 'Bathe in blue') but generally you can understand the meaning.



One drawback is that is pretty laborious..

Rob

A quicker way that I do is to simply use the Google Translate iOS app (I assume the Android version would have the same features given it's made by Google), pressing the "Camera" feature, and it will translate in real time through your camera, so you can just point your phone at the instruction manual. Hope that helps

Thanks! That sounds a lot faster indeed!! But I don't use a smartphone, so it will take the old-fashioned method for me.

Rob