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0xbad1d3a5 / Kaku

画 - Japanese OCR Dictionary
https://kaku.fuwafuwa.ca/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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[Feature request] Chinese support #41

Closed kevinchua6 closed 1 year ago

kevinchua6 commented 1 year ago

I've been trying to find something like kaku for Chinese but to no avail.

Would it be difficult to release a separate app for Chinese? I would be glad to contribute to something like that.

Thanks!

0xbad1d3a5 commented 1 year ago

It's not too difficult, but I don't think I have the time to help out - feel free to fork the code!

You'd honestly get yourself 90% there if you just replace the sqlite database with a Chinese version (it has a pretty simple schema) and swap out the tesseract files from JPN > CN.

There is actually an app that does something similar to Kaku on the Play Store for Chinese (it's paid though, and not sure if it's been updated - Android's restrictions on SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW being 70% opacity may prevent it from running on newer devices), so if you're too lazy, maybe give this a try: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f5YRc_yRtA

kevinchua6 commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the guidance! I'll try my hand at forking this and seeing how it goes. I probably won't risk buying the app because it seems quite old. Thanks again!