Yomiwa is a fast and complete offline Japanese dictionary including all modern features. Yomiwa also features powerful Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology which lets you recognize over 4000 Japanese characters (Kanjis Hiraganas and Katakanas) in your pictures or with your device camera providing prononciation (Furiganas) and detailed information of words and Kanjis into many target languages. Japanese text is detected recognized and parsed into words in a fraction of a second. Yomiwa is perfect companion to help you read books mangas signs menu and improve your Japanese reading skills while enjoying your favorite Japanese books. Yomiwa also has a built-in drawing feature for you to draw and translate Japanese characters on your touch-screen with very high accuracy.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) algorithms have been developed in-house and continuously improved over the past 6 years in order to run efficiently on any iOS device and offline.

Features:
• A complete and powerful built-in dictionary with full informations about words kanjis (on-yomi kun-yomi meaning stroke order etc.) and example sentences.
• A powerful Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine which lets you translate Japanese characters with your camera or from your camera roll pictures
• Many target languages available: English French German Spanish Russian Hungarian Dutch Slovene Swedish and Hungarian.
• Search definitions from any kind of alphabet: Kanjis / Hiraganas / Katakanas / Romajis. You can search from Japanese words or from foreign words.
• Input characters by: Drawing / Radical search / Keyboard
• Listen to the Japanese pronunciation of words in roman letters (romaji) or hiragana / katakana.
• Draw characters on the screen to translate them and practice writing Japanese
• Read either horizontal or vertical Japanese text
• Build vocabulary lists of Japanese words and Kanjis (which you can share as files or text in may ways)
• A proper names database (such as people names places locations...)
• Get help from the user community by sharing pictures on the Yomiwa Wall
• And many other features to discover :)

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
• Learn and study Japanese Kanjis
• Improving your Japanese skills!

We are very responsive to your feedback and suggestions: [email protected]

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