Translation method and apparatus using optical character reader

DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is hence a primary object of the invention to present a method and apparatus for translation having a simplified translation process in a translation apparatus with simplified data transfer.
To achieve the above object, the invention presents a method for electronically translating an optically reading textual data comprising: a first step of morphologically analyzing a first language, and detecting a first address from a first memory storing the first address corresponding to each morpheme; a second step of transferring the first address; a third step of reading out a morpheme of a second language from a second memory storing morphemes of the second language, corresponding to the transferred first address; and a fourth step of generating a sentence in the second language on the basis of the morphemes of the second language read out from the second memory.
The method for translating according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, includes at the first step, a part for speech of each morpheme of the first language is detected, at the second step, data for expressing the part of speech is transferred, and at the third step, the morpheme of the second language is read out from the second memory on the basis of the transferred address and the part of speech.
The invention presents a method for translating comprising the steps of: optically reading a character string of a first language by an optical character reader; comparing the read character string with the contents of a first memory for storing plural character strings of the first language; recognizing a meaningful word from the read character string; translating the character string into a second language using a processing device possessing a second memory having the memory contents of the first memory and information relating to it, and the second memory being provided with the identical address to the first memory as for the common character string; and transferring information relating to the type of the recognized word of the first language and the common address information from the optical character reader to the processing device