Epwing2Anki - Tool For Automatically Generating Anki Vocabulary Cards

Hello,

Epwing2Anki may be used to automatically or semi-automatically create Japanese Anki vocabulary cards based on a provided list of words and one or more of your favorite EPWING dictionaries and/or the included EDICT J-E dictionary and Tatoeba example sentence corpus. Epwing2Anki is for people like me who hate making vocabulary cards by hand.

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You will need Windows (XP/Vista/7) and .Net Framework v3.5 installed.

To demonstrate, here are some screenshots of the dialogs in the order that you would typically see them:





In the above screenshot you can see that I've added 2 J-E dictionaries (『研究社　新和英大辞典　第５版』 and EDICT) and 2 J-J dictionaries (『大辞林 第2版』 and 『広辞苑第六版』). 『研究社　新和英大辞典　第５版』 is at a higher priority then EDICT, so when looking up words, Epwing2Anki will first look at 『研究社　新和英大辞典　第５版』. If a word is not found in 『研究社　新和英大辞典　第５版』, Epwing2Anki will try to look up the word in EDICT and so on.



You can see that I only want to take example sentences from 『研究社　新和英大辞典　第５版』 and Tatoeba. I do this by disabling all of the other example dictionaries.



Here I've told Epwing2Anki that my cards should have an expression, reading, a definition from the highest priority J-E dictionary, a definition from the highest priority J-J dictionary and example sentences.



Here I've elected to take a semi-automated approach: I want to manually disambiguate when there are multiple entries for the same word but I want to let Epwing2Anki pick the best example sentences.



This dialog appears when the "fine-tune options" link in the previous screenshot is clicked. It allows you to select a number of options to further customize your cards.



This dialog will appear when the user presses the "Create Anki Import File!" button. The next two dialogs below will appear as necessary for the current word being processed.



If you see this dialog it means that multiple entries for the same word have been found in the same dictionary. You need to select which entry to use in order to continue. You may either click the links or use the 1-9 number keys.



If you decide to uncheck the "Automatically choose up to n example sentences" option on the "Setup Inputs and Outputs" page, this page would show you all the example sentences for the current word from each enabled example dictionary. You may choose however many you like to go into your card.



You will see this dialog when Epwing2Anki finishes creating the Anki import file. This dialog will inform you if anything went wrong such as when a word is not found in any of the dictionaries and Epwing2Anki could not create a card for it. You can also open the directory that contains the Anki import file from this dialog.


At this point you can take the Anki import file that was generated and... import it into Anki.

When you exit the program, all of your settings will automatically be saved.

Here is an example showing a card generated from『研究社　新和英大辞典　第５版』:


Have Fun!
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