App Detail » Camera Dictionary with WordNet

What's New

Two new app UI languages have been added: Japanese and Simplified Chinese.

App Description

Uses camera to scan text and look up words in the dictionary so you don't have to type the word to find it!
Offline dictionaries are provided so there is no need to connect to the internet.

[FEATURES]
* The camera is used to scan text and recognize words, so you don't have to type words to look them up.
- Just point the red triangle mark in the scanning screen to the word you want to look up.
- Voice prompts for word pronunciation each time a word is recognized.

* 30+ Offline Dictionaries:
- Access the dictionary anytime, anywhere without an Internet connection.
- Translate words from English into more than 30 languages.


* When a word is recognized, a brief explanation is displayed directly, and then you can choose to view the detailed explanation.

* In the detailed explanation
- lists synonyms, antonyms, related words, example sentences and so on. You can click to jump to the related words.
- Read each explanation aloud
- Easily change the font size.

* Fuzzy Search
- If you can't remember the full spelling of the word you want to look up, just type in part of the word and the fuzzy search will help you!
- To search for a word, simply type a few letters of the word, omitting any letters you don't remember from the word. Fuzzy Search will show all words including the letters you type.

* Provides camera zoom so you can scan small-font text!
- Use pinch gestures or slider to zoom in/out

[DICTIONARY]
30+ offline dictionaries included in this application:
* English dictionary: WordNet by Princeton University.
* Other dictionarys: Open Multilingual Wordnet (OMW) project.

About WordNet Dictioanry:
WordNet® is unencumbered, and may be used in commercial applications in accordance with the following license agreement. An attorney representing the commercial interest should review this WordNet license with respect to the intended use. You can see license online: https://wordnet.princeton.edu/license-and-commercial-use.
Please note that WordNet dictionaries include only "open class words": nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Therefore, excluded words include determiners, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, and micronyms.

About OMW (Open Multilingual Wordnet) Project:
For more information please visit official website: https://omwn.org/docs.html

[SCANNING TEXT]
Two modes:
- Manual Mode - When the word is recognized, you can manually click the button to see the detailed explanation.
- Auto mode - when the word is recognized, it automatically jumps to the detailed explanation.

Note that scanning paper text needs to be done under bright environmental conditions. Word recognition is affected by low light, in which case you can turn on the flashlight in the app.

[DICTIONARY LANGUAGES INCLUDED]
Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai

Shqip, العربية (Al-‘Arabīyah), Euskara, български език (bǎlgarski ezik), Català, 中文 (Zhōngwén), Hrvatski, Dansk, Nederlands, suomen kieli, Français, Galego, Ελληνικά (Elliniká), עברית (Ivrit), Íslenska, Bahasa Indonesia, Italiano, 日本語 (Nihongo), Lietuvių kalba, Bahasa Melayu, Norsk bokmål, Nynorsk, فارسی (Farsi), Polski, Português, Română, Slovenčina, Slovenščina, Español, Svenska, ไทย (Phasa Thai)


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App Changes

• November 08, 2023 Initial release
• November 14, 2023 New version 1.2
• April 25, 2024 New version 1.5