Breakdown complicated sentences into simple words then give their reading, pronunciation, and definitions. Sort definitions of a word based on its context in a sentence. Include 170000+ Japanese - English entries from JMdict. Allow searching by Kana, Kanji, Romaji, and English. Let the app detect your input automatically or set it manually by yourself. Provide Kanji information and animate their writing. Provide sentence examples for a large range of words. Extract text from images using OCR. Support text-to-speech for both Japanese and English. Allow switching between day and night mode instantly. Allow adding notes directly to our free flashcard app "Anki Universal". Support handwriting recognition (Windows Phone users please use "Chinese Simplified Handwriting" keyboard instead.) Free companion apps for desktop and laptop users.

----- Updated 14 January, 2018 ----- + Update links. + Minor bugs fixed. ----- Updated 7 September, 2017 ----- + Update Japanese-English dictionary entries to the newest version. + Add more Kanji words to our OCR engine. + Add an image pre-processing step for Microsoft OCR engine. + Minor bugs fixed. ----- Updated 6 June, 2017 ----- Added a new Japanese OCR engine developed by us: + This new engine will provide more consistent results and allow you to easily correct wrong letters compared to the old one. + You can switch back to the engine of Microsoft in "Settings". + The new engine will also support OCR on mobile devices. + You can now perform OCR directly from the camera of your device. ----- Updated 22 March, 2017 ----- + Possible linked words are now marked with a different underline color. + You can now select unknown Kanji letters after word segmentation. + Improve the accuracy of word segmentation and conjugation detection (especially on special verbs.) + Unknown compound Katakana words are now auto split (ex: アークプリースト = アーク and プリースト ) + Add more notes to each word meaning. + Enable split on Nakaguro. + Minor bugs fixed.