How a gaijin plays visual novels

1 Name: Anonymous 2025-01-21 17:58

step 1

screenshot game text

step 2

put it through https://www.imagetotext.info/

step 3

translate the text

Yeah, I do get asked for cuckflare verification for every screenshot I convert into text. Yeah, this is exteremely annoying and inefficient. Yeah, I'm having fun.

2 Name: Anonymous 2025-01-21 22:36

Quoted by: >>3,5

At that point why not learn japanese? It's fun.

3 Name: Anonymous 2025-01-22 05:53

isn't there a desktop application that can screen grab an area and do this lol
actually, for VNs, aren't there a bunch of text hookers you can use to extract and translate the text lol

lol

>>2
seconding this (I'm doing it!)

4 Name: Anonymous 2025-01-22 06:33

previously on /otaku/ - →/read.cgi/otaku/1717718655
specifically https://learnjapanese.moe/vn/ has instructions for how to do text hooker translation stuff for adding to anki decks and such.

5 Name: Anonymous 2026-03-17 21:14

Quoted by: >>7,10

>>2
This is a horrendous lie and I wish that people would stop spreading it. It takes approximately 20 years to become fluent in a language and it is a struggle the majority of that time.

6 Name: Anonymous 2026-03-18 03:32

Quoted by: >>11

github(dot)com(slash)Artikash(slash)Textractor
I find this pretty useful, as a fellow subhuman EOP

7 Name: Anonymous 2026-03-18 05:15

>>5
it will not take someone 20 years to know enough to read visual novels tho

8 Name: Anonymous 2026-03-18 05:29

Quoted by: >>11

yeah you can be reading easy VN's in less than a year
>>55 claims to be debunking a lie but conflates fluency (whatever that even means) with ability to read

9 Name: Anonymous 2026-03-18 05:45

the additional 5 was a mistake but pretty cool that you can refer to not yet made posts

10 Name: Anonymous 2026-03-18 06:17

>>5
It is not fun to learn a language but it does not take 20 years. Don't be ridiculous

11 Name: Anonymous 2026-03-18 07:15

>>8
Few people want to spend hours toiling away at a language with three different alphabets and entirely different grammar/phonetics systems from their native one, for something they're not wholeheartedly passionate about, only so they can kind of read children's books after an entire year. Japanese is hard, and it takes a lot of dedication; you can't just "learn Japanese" because it's not a decision you make once on a whim, but something you have to deeply work towards for a long while. "Learn Japanese so you can read visual novels" isn't as convenient as people online make it out to be.
OP could just cope by using a took like >>6 or something

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