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Re:Show HN: Mob Translate – Translation for Australian Abori... by yorwba on Monday September 14, 2020 @07:42AM (#24469009)
> I will look into automating with OCR but it is also kind of cool to re-type it all to get a feel for the language myself.

I ran the PDF through OCRmyPDF https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ with the language set to English and it actually did pretty well even at recognizing Kuku Yalanji words. Getting it into a structured format will require some custom processing to parse the layout, though.

> the languages are almost dead anyway so will be nigh impossible to get a data set.

One way you might be able to slightly boost usage is to create a mobile keyboard based on the dictionary, making it more convenient to type in the language. Keyman https://keyman.com/ is an open-source tool for creating keyboard layouts, coincidentally created by the Summer Institute for Linguistics.

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Re:Show HN: Mob Translate – Translation for Australian Abori... by thomasfromcdnjs on Monday September 14, 2020 @07:54AM (#24469067)
It seems like you have done this before aha

I will try the OCR too and make it work some how.

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