Word Page / Kanji Lookup about aedict

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Argh, meant for this to be "enhancement", not "defect", but I'm afraid I don't 
know
how to change things up :/ sorry!

Original comment by [email protected] on 2 Nov 2009 at 5:51

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Hi, no problem :) Thanks for the request. Yes, this feature is definitely 
missing. It 
is doable fairly quickly if all you want is just a kanji-english translation. 
However, 
if other information (such as stroke count, radicals etc) is to be displayed 
the 
implementation of the feature will take longer: this information is not part of 
the 
edict file, it is stored in the "kanjidic" file which has to be downloaded and 
indexed.
Perhaps I should implement this quickly using the "edict" dictionary only, then 
proceed to the full implementation using "kanjidic". What do you think?

Original comment by [email protected] on 2 Nov 2009 at 9:00

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Original comment by [email protected] on 2 Nov 2009 at 9:01

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it's up to you, developer!  Depends how you feel about trashing code.  If 
you've ever heard of "Kotoba" 
for iPhone, they have a nifty feature for kanji pages that shows how to write 
them.  That's a tough one 
though ( no idea where they dug that up).  Just radicals and perhaps indeces 
for common Kanji 
dictionaries would be awesome though!  And if you could correlate vocab with 
sentences from Jim Breen 
you'd be a hero!

Original comment by [email protected] on 2 Nov 2009 at 6:10

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If a can tell my mind, kanji writing video are not that usefull and it will 
slow 
your android device. I found several on à website in mov-format but it was 
heaven 
and doesn't render that good ...
But adding kanjidic is a good idea.

Original comment by [email protected] on 3 Nov 2009 at 9:04

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Sorry, i forgot ... what about search fonction with touch-screen ?
Your draw, it finds ... Would be nice !
There was softs like this on palm ...

Original comment by [email protected] on 3 Nov 2009 at 9:07

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Oh full videos of kanji writing is a waste.  I meant more on the lines of a 
24x24 gif where 1 frame = 1 
stroke.  But yeah, G! Is not very hardy for memory intensive things like that.

On the other hand, if you don't know how to do pattern recognition, I could 
lend a habnd with that, but 
I would need to do some research as to common techniques for kanji 
classification. 

Original comment by [email protected] on 3 Nov 2009 at 6:53

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Yeah, the kanji drawing search (like the KanjiPad) would definitely be nice, 
however I 
have no experience in this field - your help would be much appreciated! I tried 
to 
search for some OCR Java libraries but I couldn't find anything useful.
As for kanji drawing - hmm. Can you point me where to download such GIFs?

Original comment by [email protected] on 4 Nov 2009 at 8:53

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There's an open source japanese handwriting recognition engine named TOMOE
http://tomoe.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/en/blog/index.rb

after a quick search, i found several links :
a utility i used on palm : http://www.wellscs.com/pilot/index.htm
you already know this one, but readers may not : 
http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/#wince_r
the well-known kanjipad : http://fishsoup.net/software/kanjipad/
another one, lamerpad : http://www.debian.org.hk/~ypwong/lamerpad.html
http://chasen.org/~taku/software/ajax/hwr/
and else :
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/projects/japan/JavaDict/download/index.html
http://www.akalin.cx/2006/10/21/japanese-handwriting-recognition-systems/

I hope this will help ...

Original comment by [email protected] on 4 Nov 2009 at 10:11

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Most common techniques for kanji recognition are heavily reliant on stroke 
order and angle 
correctness.  Apparently, general kanji reading recognition is a generally 
unsolved problem due to how 
many there are.

I don't have much time immediately, but I would love to lend a hand as mid 
December draws around.

Original comment by [email protected] on 6 Nov 2009 at 9:53

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There is too much going on in this issue, I have split this issue into Issue 
15, Issue 
16 and Issue 17. Closing this bug as duplicate.

Original comment by [email protected] on 7 Nov 2009 at 11:13

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