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(2016-02-07, 6:43 am)kraemder Wrote: Any tips on getting the OCR to work as well as possible?  I used to use this program and I remember it being fairly accurate and a real help.  I'm in Japan now t...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2016-02-10, 12:42 pm
    Thread: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text
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(2016-01-27, 3:59 pm)cescoz Wrote: Very useful software, thank you. Ps it's possible to change the dictionary? (Using for example epwing dicts? ) Thanks The dictionary is stored in data/dictionary...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2016-02-10, 12:30 pm
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(2016-01-26, 2:42 pm)kameden Wrote: By the way any chance of implementing a wildcard character for searches? Like if you know the second character but don't know the first you have no way of using t...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2016-02-10, 12:28 pm
    Thread: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text
Post: RE: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text

I have released a new version of KanjiTomo. There are no major new features but I have improved the automatic text orientation detection (old version was a bit unreliable) and I have updated the dicti...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2016-01-24, 12:14 pm
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Post: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text

I was writing this on my spare time so I didn't record how many hours. I would say it took couple of months writing the core algorithm and maybe half a year for the first release. The user interface a...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2015-08-16, 11:03 pm
    Thread: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text
Post: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text

stephenmac7 Wrote:Is there any chance you would release the source code for this? I might release the source code for KanjiTomo's core OCR algorithm at some point. First I would need to polish the cod...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2015-08-10, 11:29 am
    Thread: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text
Post: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text

I have released a new version of KanjiTomo. There is one new feature: support for Chinese language. Chinese dictionary is included but the names dictionary is only for Japanese. To enable Chinese sup...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2015-04-12, 11:35 am
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Post: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text

I found one more line in the code where focus is grabbed. It's now disabled by DISABLE_KEEP_ON_TOP option; try dowloading the new version and see if it helps. Tamba Wrote:edit: That means, the proble...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2015-04-12, 11:31 am
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Tamba Wrote:In the meantime: how about an option to disable the "stay on top" even when automatic OCR is active? If you are still having this issue, download the program again. I have added an option ...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2015-02-08, 1:34 pm
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Post: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text

Tamba Wrote:I'm using Windows 7. After experimenting around a bit, I think I've identified the problem. When you have Kanjitomo on the same screen as whatever you're reading it works as expected(Windo...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2015-01-12, 4:02 pm
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Cyborg Ninja Wrote:Perhaps the program can calculate the average box size or mean, draw that on the screen, disregarding punctuation and chiisai kana, and this would help with problems mentioned like ...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2015-01-12, 3:51 pm
    Thread: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text
Post: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text

KanjiTomo should not steal focus (at least on Windows 7), but it does keep the window on top of other windows by default. Is this what you mean? You could try turning off Automatic OCR mode (from ch...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2015-01-07, 12:09 pm
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Post: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text

Currently it's not possible to increase the number of detected characters beyond 4. There are two reasons for this: - most Japanese words written in kanji can be identified with four characters - cha...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2014-12-13, 11:50 am
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jessem Wrote:The kana recognition is pretty bad...like surprisingly bad, considering how awesome the kanji recognition is. I know this stuff is really complicated to do. What an odd side effect... The...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2014-11-19, 12:04 am
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edomaeexa Wrote:Is there any way to copy the actual symbols only from the program? This software is so accurate. Sure, highlight + Ctrl-C works from text area. Also you can set COPY_TO_CLIPBOARD_AUTO...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2014-10-12, 1:10 am
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mishu Wrote:I do not know if you did something but the webpage is working, both download and the actual page. I'm checking the webpage as I type. This is good to hear. Most likely it was just a tempor...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2014-10-06, 10:52 pm
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I have not blacklisted any country. I suppose it is possible that my hosting company has done it. In that case, please provide (in private message) your IP address and I can check with them. Is the pr...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2014-10-04, 2:58 am
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mishu Wrote:Hello! I've been trying to find this app but the indicated download page isn't working. Is it temporary down or ...? Could anyone please post a download link for the English version of kan...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2014-10-02, 10:31 pm
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He4rtl3ss Wrote:Thank you for the answer Kurotawa. I downloaded the edict2 dictionary file (http://www.wadoku.de/wiki/display/WAD/Do...+und+Links) and replaced the english one. When I open it, everyt...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2014-09-02, 1:39 pm
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He4rtl3ss Wrote:Is there a way to change the dictionary? Because I would like to use a dictionary in my native language. The dictionary is located in: data\dictionary\edict2; if you have another dicti...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2014-09-02, 11:54 am
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MarseSnorty Wrote:I have a problem running linux (elementary OS, modified Ubuntu 12.04) when I use it. I get errors in both rikaimode and image mode, output here because it'd make the whole post a w...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2014-06-05, 8:55 am
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I have decided to merge Supporter's Editions features into the main freeware program. You can now download the full version without any payment from http://www.kanjitomo.net Current version has the ...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2014-05-18, 4:29 pm
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SevenSyndicate Wrote:Hello I am having some issues running this program. When I launch it I get this error. java.io.IOException: Cannot run program ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0\bin\java.ex...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2014-04-06, 2:46 pm
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chilledMojito Wrote:Could you elaborate on what you mean by multiple files with the same page number? I'm not very sure on what that is. I was thinking that you could create something like an array of...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2014-02-11, 11:39 am
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Thank you for pointing this out. You are right, if there is a mix of different file types in a directory, open file dialog pops up too often. This should be easy to fix, so I'll try to add this to the...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2014-02-02, 3:28 am
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I have now created a new version of KanjiTomo called "Supporter's Edition". It includes a new feature that allows saving identified words to a list and later export them to file or clipboard. You can ...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2013-10-27, 12:30 pm
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KanjiTomo has become quite popular and a couple of people have asked me if they could support it's development through donations. Unfortunately this is not currently allowed by Finnish law; there must...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2013-10-15, 10:37 am
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Post: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text

apirx Wrote:Don't want to bother you, but I noticed there are a few more issues with the hotkeys. I can't seem to get the toggle_auto_ocr_hotkey to work. For example, I bind CHANGE_DICTIONARY_HOTKEY...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2013-07-23, 11:37 am
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apirx Wrote:I'm using Windows 7 SP 1 64bit. I have a second computer with the same OS where the problem doesn't exist. Maybe I have a faulty java installation? You could try starting KanjiTomo from t...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2013-07-20, 2:11 am
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apirx Wrote:Using Kanjitomo 0.9.9, Java 1.7.0_11 Kanjitomo uses up to 800-900MB of my ram. I didn't check with the older versions but this seems excessive. It fills my ram (I have 4gb) up to 95-99%. ...
Kurotowa Learning resources 139 56,468 2013-07-18, 11:38 pm