LexEye - OCR Popup Dictionary for Free

Learn languages while watching Netflix, Anime, YouTube, reading manga, or browsing the web, completely for free.

Looking up a word shouldn't mean pausing what you're watching, exiting full screen, switching tabs, and losing your train of thought. LexEye brings instant dictionary definitions, AI context explanations, natural audio pronunciation, and one-click Anki sentence mining directly to whatever is on your screen.

🎬 Learn you watch your favourite shows

"Consuming authentic media—like movies, TV shows, and YouTube videos—is one of the fastest and most effective ways to learn a new language or achieve fluency."

🔗 Clickable subtitles on Netflix, YouTube, Crunchyroll, and other streaming sites. 🖥 Full-screen friendly, so you never have to interrupt or exit your playback. 🧠 Smart lemmatization automatically recognizes conjugated verbs and adjectives, showing you the root dictionary form. 📖 Tabbed meaning popup separates definitions by part of speech and includes a dedicated examples tab. 🎞 Visual learning with relevant GIFs and contextual cues to help memory retention. 🌐 Works seamlessly across English, Japanese (Kanji Breakdown, Kana, Furigana, and JLPT levels, Frequencies), German, French, Spanish, and over 100 other languages.

💿On-Screen OCR lookup for Anything You Can See on your screen

Traditional dictionary extensions only work on plain webpage text. LexEye can read anything on your screen. Just press Alt+X (or your custom shortcut) to drag and select:

🔤 Burned-in and hardcoded subtitles 📚 Manga and comics 🎥 Video frames and streaming players 📄 PDFs, games, and web apps 📱 Social media feeds and online courses

We use a dedicated, local, Deep Learning OCR model which runs completely in your browser (not connected to our servers; your data is safe) to extract the textual data and pass the extracted query through our robust language processing pipeline utilizing several open-source public APIs and Libraries to provide Unlimited OCR, subtitle and text lookups to all users completely free of charge.

🔊 Studio-Quality Audio Hearing the right pronunciation is critical for language acquisition.

🎙 Powered by Azure Neural Text-to-Speech for lifelike, natural-sounding voice output ⚡ We use windows native WebSpeech API and further fallback to Google TTS in case. 🌐Standard transcriptions for each word pronunciation along with accurate Kana pronunciations audio and ruby formatted furigana particularly for Japanese words. 💾 Audio files are automatically saved and attached when creating flashcards.

🃏 One-Click Anki Sync and Sentence Mining No need to lose your mind over setting up some complex github repo for sentence mining with movies/anime. We've made it simple for you. Turn interesting words and dialogue into memorable flashcards in a single click. Just enable AnkiConnect & LexEye programatically builds rich cards containing:

• HQ audio pronunciation • Automatic snapshots of the exact movie/anime scene or webpage • Full context sentence and subtitle line • Native translation and detailed definitions • Part of speech and example sentences • Japanese-specific furigana readings, Kanji breakdown, Kana, and JLPT tags

Or if u wish import the .tsv file directly into Anki

📚 Vocabulary Vault and Spaced Repetition

🔎 Personal vocabulary vault to search, filter, and review saved words anytime. 🧠 Robust spaced repetition algorithm reminds you of words right before you forget them. 🃏 Built-in flashcards for quick review sessions inside your browser. ☁ Cloud sync keeps your learning progress available across devices

🤖 AI Context-Aware Lookups (Pro) A single word often changes meaning depending on the surrounding sentence.

Context-aware breakdowns analyze the entire sentence or subtitle line to give you the exact meaning for that specific scenario

💡 Idioms, proverbs, slangs, colloquial terms are explained clearly. 🌍 Dual translations provide both native-language explanations and clean English definitions.

⚙ Customization As You Need

🌐 Over 100+ languages supported. ⌨ Customizable OCR shortcut. 🃏 Configurable Anki deck, model, and field mapping. 🎛 Option to toggle GIFs, extension activity, and instant lookup

Note: For some languages like Korean, Russian, Hindi , Arabic, Urdu, we are currently unable to offer ocr lookup due to the limitations of the scripts OCR engine can process. However, we do support subtitle and text lookups to some extent for these languages. For ocr lookups with these languages, you must upgrade to Pro.

✨ Why Choose LexEye?

🎬 Look up words inside videos without ever leaving full screen. 🔍 Powerful OCR captures text from manga, video players, and images. 🃏 Generate media rich Anki cards with screenshots, audio, and context in one click. ⚡ Zero copy-pasting and zero tab switching required.

Install LexEye for free today and turn movies, anime, articles, and your daily browsing into effortless language immersion.