ScanLingua

Scan, recognize and translate parts of your screen.

ScanLingua: Scan, recognize and translate Japanese text on your screen

ScanLingua is a free and open source Chrome extension that provides Japanese text recognition of selected screen areas. With ScanLingua, you can check subtitles, manga panels, or any Japanese text, edit the recognized text, and alter annotations. It also allows you to create and export kanji cards to Anki via Anki-connect. ScanLingua uses various Google APIs and requires a free API key for its functions. Please note that the kanji annotation feature is currently undergoing maintenance.
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Extension stats

Users: 399
10
Rating: 3.67
(3)
Version: 0.0.3.2 (Last updated: 2023-09-19)
Creation date: 2023-04-05
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • activeTab
Size: 253.95K

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Extension summary

ScanLingua provides Japanese text recognition of selected screen areas with translation, kanji annotation and audio.

- Check on subtitles, manga panels or any Japanese text;
- Edit recognized text and alter annotations;
- Create and export kanji cards to Anki via Anki-connect;
- Free and open source.

ScanLingua use various Google APIs. Free API key creation is mandatory to use extension functions.

Source code: https://github.com/OuterSpaceHobo/ScanLingua

User reviews

Setting up the API key was tedious (having never used Google Cloud before). Other than that, it is perfect for my needs!
by Mira Duro, 2024-07-15

by cauamachado51, 2023-12-25

Отличное расширение для чтения манги.
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Extension safety

Risk impact

ScanLingua requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

ScanLingua has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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