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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By: SpaceHoboDev

Users: 435

-15

Rating: 4.00

(4)

Version: 0.0.3.2 (Last updated: 2023-09-19)

Creation date: 2023-04-05

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Size: 253.95K

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Ranking

# 42,845 ▼ 648

Other rankings

#300 in Education ▼ 2

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

Once you get over the setting the API key it's amazing! The best one for japanese OCR. Only issue, sometime the window pop up too low and you can't see the translation part

Sebastiano Capponi, 2024-12-27

Setting up the API key was tedious (having never used Google Cloud before). Other than that, it is perfect for my needs!

Mira Duro, 2024-07-15

Отличное расширение для чтения манги.

Дмитрий Гриценко, 2023-04-05

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ScanLingua requires very minimum permissions.

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