Japanese and Chinese OCR: extract CJK text from images
Read Japanese text from a street-name sign and Traditional Chinese text from a Taiwanese nutrition label, transcribed in the original script (kanji, kana, hanzi) with line breaks kept. A language hint helps with small or stylized characters. Works for Korean too, and for menus, signs, packaging and product labels.
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