HOWTO: Create a Custom Text Translator

Background

In certain situations it may be appropriate for you to create a custom text translator to use in your OCR solution.

Solution

Our default text translator expects to deal with results on the character level.

The "Pig Latin" sample app contains a custom text translator which deals with results on the word level. It's a silly task (converting English to "pig latin") but it gives a great example of how you can accomplish such a task

Custom OCR Translator Demo (formerly "Pig Latin")

Original Article

Q10337 - HOWTO: Create a Custom Text Translator

Last Update

2026-10-21 - TD - (Fixed outdated links and updated headings)