HanYou

The Description of HanYou

Site Editorial Commentary：Offline Chinese Dictionary and Optical Recognizer

HanYou is a comprehensive and modern Offline Chinese dictionary designed to empower your Chinese language learning journey. This app is your perfect companion for reading books, manga, signs, menus, and more, significantly improving your Chinese reading comprehension while you enjoy your favorite content.

Key features include:

* **Powerful Offline OCR:** HanYou boasts a cutting-edge, in-house developed Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine, continuously refined over six years. This technology accurately recognizes over 13,000 Chinese characters from images or your device's camera.
* **Instant translation:** Chinese text is detected, recognized, and parsed into words in seconds. Detailed information for each word and character is provided, including pronunciation and English definitions.
* **Interactive drawing Feature:** A built-in drawing tool allows you to draw and translate Chinese characters with remarkable accuracy on your touchscreen.

**Dictionary Features:**

* Multiple target languages: English, German, French, and Hungarian.
* Flexible search options: Search Chinese words using Traditional/Simplified characters or Pinyin.
* Reverse search: Look up foreign words to find their Chinese equivalents.
* Multiple input methods: keyboard, drawing, and radical input.
* Advanced search filters: Find words starting with, ending with, or containing your search query.
* vocabulary building: Create and share custom vocabulary lists in various formats.
* Audio pronunciation: Listen to the correct pronunciation of words using the "Speak" function.

**Optical Character Recognition (OCR) (One-time paid feature after a one-day free trial):**

* Translate Chinese characters in images with the powerful OCR engine.
* Recognizes over 13,000 Chinese characters.
* Supports both Traditional and Simplified characters.
* Works with live camera feed or images from your camera roll.
* Handles both horizontal and vertical Chinese text.

**Text Analyzer:**

* Pinyin integration in Safari: Easily add pinyin to Chinese text on web pages using the "HanYou Add Pinyins" share extension.
* Text import and analysis: Paste text or import from OCR to get word definitions.
* Automatic Pinyin display.
* Text-to-speech: Listen to the Chinese text using the "Speak" function.

**Daily Word Lists:**

* Learn vocabulary from Chinese news articles: Daily word lists extracted from news articles are available, allowing you to read the source articles with ease, enhanced by pinyin display.

**HanYou Wall:**

* Community support: Get help from the HanYou user community by sharing images on the HanYou Wall.

**HanYou is ideal for:**

* Boosting your reading skills with advanced OCR technology.
* Using as a reliable everyday Chinese dictionary.
* Expanding your vocabulary with custom word lists.
* Learning and studying Chinese characters.
* Improving your overall Chinese language proficiency.