


Scroll Lookup Words - look up vocabulary one-word-at-a-time just like “Lookup Words” in the live OCR system, but instead of pointing at the words you want to look up, you scroll / zoom around the image until they’re in the recognition area. You can then bring up this text in the document reader, copy it to the pasteboard, or simply tap on characters in the image to look them up just as in our regular document reader. Still Imageīlock Recognizer - select a large portion of an image and recognize all of the Chinese text in it at once. This is best for short blocks of text of no more than a paragraph or so. Lookup Words (Crosshairs) - identical to the above except that you use a crosshairs instead of a resizable box to select characters to recognize.Ĭapture Flashcards - point the camera at a word and hold it there for a second or so to add it to your flashcard (or bookmark) database.Ĭapture Text - point the camera at a longer block of text and tap on a button to bring up that block of text in a document reader screen you can then tap on characters in the text to look them up, or save the output to a text file. Lookup Words (Box) - the primary way of using live Pleco OCR: point your phone’s camera at a word and its definition instantly pops up below.

We strongly recommend that you try out that demo version before purchasing this add-on while most of the people who’ve purchased have been very satisfied, it’s not perfect for everyone - the texts you like to read or the environment you read them in may cause problems for it - and you may find that it’s not reliable enough to be useful to you in its present state. If you haven’t purchased the OCR module yet, you can do so through the Add-ons tab there’s also a demo version accessible through there (just tap on the “Optical Character Recognizer” item).

Each of those operates in several different modes, which are summarized below. The Pleco Optical Character Recognizer system is a paid add-on module if purchased, you can access it through the “Live Video” and “Still Image” options in the sidebar menu. Pleco Instruction Manual Accessing the OCR System Pleco Instruction Manual OCR Table of Contents
