Japanese language -- Win7 or Linux Mint?

[Hondaman]

I ordered a Japanese book, it will never be published in English. A Mr. Fujumoto was a Japanese sushi chef who became a cook for Kim Jong-Il. He was not perceived as a threat to the dictator's power, so he became very close to the dictator. Apparently, the dictator is QUITE hedonistic, with a lot of debauchery. Although he can spend as much as $700,000 per year on alcoholic beverages and this alcohol is NOT actually the highest quality. Also, the dictator has 24 palaces. One of them is as large as TEN YANKEE STADIUMS PUT TOGETHER. Are they all that large?

Does anyone have experience with Japanese language? This is similar to my Korean book in another thread. Should I use Win7 or Linux? Will I need to use the highest resolution (1200 dpi) on my Canoscan 8400 scanner?

[stj]

you want to create a japanese pdf or put it through tesseract?
btw, how many pages are we talking about?

[Hondaman]

I'm sorry. Amazon's listing does not tell me. ISBN search websites don't tell me either.

I did get my copy of DOGANI today (Korean). It appears to be the testimony of about 100 abused children that inspired the movie "SILENCED". An art teacher sees physical and sexual abuse in 2005 in a Korean school for the deaf and other disabilities. I haven't even finished scanning Ahn Meong-Chol's book yet (in Korean, discussed in another thread), and now I have another Korean book to scan.

By the way, if you ever want a good book to read, there is a book "SPOTLIGHT" talking about priest sexual abuse in Boston, Massachusetts. It shows very clearly the events shown in the 2014 movie "SPOTLIGHT" with Michael Keaton and Stanley Tucci. VERY interesting reading.

A quick Google search says that I can install Japanese language pack. They want me to choose which "input method" I will use on my keyboard, but I don't believe I will ever have to type any Japanese characters. Scan, upload, cut and paste. Standard Windows stuff.

[Hondaman]

No, I don't think I want to create a PDF. I scanned pages from Ahn Meong-Chul's book (in Korean) and uploaded the JPEG to a website that specializes in OCR of foreign languages, one page at a time. Then I cut and paste the characters into Office 97 (which can handle Korean). I open the paper book and re-format the Word document so the paragraphs and quotation marks, and sub-chapter headings match the paper book. Then upload one paragraph at a time to Google Translate.

My new Japanese book will be the same way, but I have to install a Japanese language capability, whether Win7 or Linux. I suppose Word for Office 97 can handle Japanese, if I install the Win7 language pack. I assume OpenOffice for Linux can handle Japanese if I go to the Mint software repository and add the language pack to Mint.