KanjiTomo

Introduction

KanjiTomo is a program for identifying Japanese characters from images:

Kanji lookup is done by pointing the mouse to any image on screen (either from a file, program or web page). Dictionary lookup is done at the same time. Horizontal and vertical text are both supported.

Download

The latest version of KanjiTomo can be downloaded here Unzip the package to any directory and double-clickorto run the program. If you are upgrading from previous version of KanjiTomo, you can useto load your old configuration.

Java is required to run the program. KanjiTomo has been tested on Windows 10 operating system, other operating systems might also work but are not supported. Japanese fonts must be installed.

How it works

Release history

1.0.4 (2020-08-18) ------------------ - target character color can be selected with a hotkey (see config.txt:SET_CHARACTER_COLOR), this can be used when automatic character detection fails with colored text or background - fixed occasional crashes with automatic OCR mode - fixed expand/contract match hotkeys 1.0.3 (2020-05-25) ------------------ - fixed font scaling with config.txt parameters 1.0.0 (2019-12-15) ------------------ - improved OCR quality and speed 0.9.13 (2018-11-25) ------------------- - fixed issue that prevented launch with Java 11 0.9.12 (2016-01-24) ------------------- - improved text orientation detection 0.9.11 (2015-04-12) ------------------- - support for Chinese language 0.9.10 (2014-05-18) --------------------- - ability to save identified words to a list and export them to file or clipboard 0.9.9 (2013-06-17) ------------------ - zoom mode - ability to click and drag to manually select word location (in file or zoom mode) 0.9.8 (2013-02-10) ------------------ - dictionary for Japanese names - improved detection of white text over complex background 0.9.7 (2012-11-25) ------------------ - clipboard support - fullscreen mode - two-page spread mode - file history 0.9.5 (2012-10-07) ------------------ - four character compounds - selectable text orientation - selectable text color - hotkeys - faster startup speed 0.9.2 (2012-09-23) ------------------ - initial release

Contact

Description of KanjiTomo's algorithm is here OCR code is available as a Java library at GitHub: https://github.com/sakarika/kanjitomo-ocr If you have any questions about the program, feel free to send an email to