Yomiwa – Japanese Dictionary and OCR is the title of a comprehensive offline Japanese dictionary developed by Yomiwa and published on Google Play. Android smartphones, due to their special features and capabilities, are nowadays a suitable option for increasing our learning in relation to various issues. One of the most common educational apps that we see growing for these devices is programs for teaching specific languages. If you are also among those interested in Japanese language, you need to attend classes and spend a lot of money to learn this language; According to our experience, these classes will not have good results. However, using Android phones not only allows you to learn this language easily, but also saves your money. Yomiwa – Japanese Dictionary and OCR software is one of the best Japanese language dictionaries, the strength of which can be considered to be offline. This topic helps you to easily find the most complete meanings of words and meet your needs regardless of your location. An internal OCR engine with support for 4,000 different words will allow you to identify words by just taking the camera on different photos and get their meaning in languages such as French, English, German, Russian, etc. Another feature that makes the use of this startup attractive is the extraordinary handwriting recognition system; This helps that you don’t need to take pictures of typed texts when using the OCR feature. The professional search system is designed in such a way that you can find all the words you want in different alphabets such as kanji, romaji, etc. To better understand the use of words, more than 200 thousand different examples are available to you, which is unique in its kind.
Some features of Yomiwa – Japanese Dictionary and OCR application for Android:
Access to a comprehensive offline dictionary to learn Japanese quickly
Get the meanings of words in English, German, Russian, French and…
The unique OCR feature to get the meanings of words using the smartphone camera
Excellent system for identifying all types of handwriting
Searching for words in the form of alphabets such as kanji, romaji, etc.
A collection of 200,000 different examples to better understand the meanings of words
A wonderful database of all kinds of names, places and…
Playing the exact pronunciation of words in audio
Built-in web browser to translate all Japanese language websites
Yomiwa is a modern offline Japanese dictionary, including numerous features to help you read and learn Japanese. Yomiwa’s dictionary has been built up from diverse sources in order to provide you with the one of the most complete Japanese dictionary app on the Play Store. The powerful search function lets you input words in any kind of alphabet (Kanjis, Hiraganas, Katakanas, Romajis). You can even input whole sentences.
Yomiwa also features powerful, fast and offline Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. Yomiwa can recognize more than 4000 Japanese characters in your pictures or with your device camera. Japanese text is detected, recognized and parsed into words in a fraction of a second.
Yomiwa’s OCR modes have been designed to help you read with ease all your favorite reading materials, such as mangas, newspapers, books or restaurant menus and signs.
Yomiwa also comes with a built-in Handwriting Recognition engine which recognizes Japanese characters from your touch-screen.
Extensive Dictionary:
- Complete information about Japanese words and Kanjis such as on-yomi, kun-yomi, meaning, stroke order, compounds etc.
- Many target languages available: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hungarian, Dutch, Slovene, Swedish and Hungarian
- More than 200K exemples sentences
- Handwriting Recognition
- Input characters by Drawing / Radical search / Keyboard
- Look up conjugated forms, even if they are incomplete
- Search definitions in any kind of alphabet: Kanjis / Hiraganas / Katakanas / Romajis.
- You can search from Japanese words or from foreign words
- Build vocabulary lists of Japanese words, Kanjis or Sentences (which you can share as files or text in many ways)
- Export your vocabulary lists to Anki
- A proper names database (such as people names, places, locations…)
- Listen to the Japanese pronunciation of words and example sentences through the “Speak” function
Optical Character Recognition (OCR): (one-time paid feature after a three-days free trial)
- A powerful Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine which lets you translate Japanese characters in images
- Yomiwa can recognize more that 4000 Japanese characters
- Recognize Japanese text with your Live Camera or on Still Pictures (from your gallery)
- Read either horizontal or vertical Japanese text
Text Analyzer:
- Paste some text, or import it from the OCR modes, into the text analyzer to get definitions of each word in the text
- Furiganas are also displayed automatically
- Listen to the Japanese text with the “Speak” function
Web browser with furiganas displayed automatically:
- Yomiwa includes a web browser which lets you read Japanese websites with ease
Daily Word Lists extracted from Japanese news articles:
- Keywords appearing in the daily news are displayed in the app everyday. You can open the source news article and add Furiganas in order to read it with ease
Yomiwa Wall:
- Get help from the user community by sharing pictures on the Yomiwa Wall
Yomiwa is perfect for:
- Upgrading your reading skills to the next level by reading any Japanese text with Yomiwa OCR technology
- Using as your everyday Japanese dictionary
- Increasing your vocabulary by building your own word lists
- Learning and study Japanese Kanjis
- Improving your Japanese skills!
We are very responsive to your feedback and suggestions: android.devteam@yomiwa.net
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App Specs
- For ANDROID
- Update March 8, 2023
- Version 4.3.1
- Android 4.1
- Developers Yomiwa
- Category Education
- View on Google Play