Program
Meikipop - Universal Japanese OCR Popup Dictionary
Instantly look up japanese words anywhere on your screen. meikipop uses optical character recognition (ocr) to read text from websites, games, scanned manga, or even hard-coded video subtitles, giving you effortless dictionary lookups with the press of a key.
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Details
Features
- works everywhere: if you can see it on your screen, you can look it up. no more limitations of browser extensions, hooks or application-specific tools.
- ocr-powered: reads japanese text directly from images, making it perfect for games, comics, and videos.
- blazingly fast: the dictionary is pre-processed into a highly optimized format for instant lookups. the ui is designed to be lightweight and responsive.
- simple & intuitive: just point your mouse and press a hotkey. that's it.
- highly customizable: change the hotkey, theme, colors, and layout to create your perfect reading experience.
- region or fullscreen: scan your entire screen or select a specific region (like a game window or manga page) to improve performance.
- pluggable ocr backend: comes with a great default ocr, but allows users to integrate owocr or their own ocr engines.
Philosophy & Limitations
meikipop is designed to do one thing and do it exceptionally well: provide fast, frictionless, on-screen dictionary lookups.
it is heavily inspired by the philosophy of Nazeka, a fantastic browser-based popup dictionary, and aims to bring that seamless experience to the entire desktop. it also draws inspiration from the ocr architecture of owocr.
to maintain this focus, there are a few things meikipop is not:
- it is not an srs-mining tool. meikipop does not include functionality to automatically create flashcards for programs like Anki.
- it is not a multi-dictionary tool. while technically possible to adapt, the lookup logic is highly optimized for the structure and tags of the JMdict dictionary.
Setup
Installation
windows + linux (x11): prepackaged binaries + dictionary
This is the easiest way to run meikipop on windows and linux and is recommended for most users. no python installation required. just download, unpack and start the executable binary: