Hanzi Recognizer (v. 2.3) Разработано Nikolay Elenkov |
Handwritten character recognition and dictionary for simplified and traditional Chinese.
** New: Version 2.0 with redesigned UI and full support for tablets
** New: Text to speech support. Just install the eSpeak TTS engine and get audio pronunciation for hanzi (free) or compounds (premium only).
Premium features available: search by reading/meaning, compound search, favorites and history. You can upgrade form within the application (Settings->Upgrade to premium), no need to download a separate application.
Premium upgrade price: around $3.99 (varies slightly by location/exchange rate. Press the 'Upgrade' button to display the Android Market dialog with the current price).
Just draw a character, tap 'Recognize' and select a candidate to display character reading, meaning, radical and hear audio pronunciation . Search by reading or meaning, as well as compound search also available (premium only). Characters/compounds you view are automatically saved to history and can be marked as favorite (premium only).
Follow proper, or at least basic (left to right, top to bottom, horizontal before vertical, etc.), stroke order for best results.
Features:
* Full tablet support (v2.0)
* Audio pronunciation for hanzi and compounds (uses the eSpeak text-to-speech engine)
* Search on stroke -- recognition candidates are displayed automatically as you draw
* Adjustable candidates font size
* Adjustable drawing pen size and color
* Shake to delete stroke/clear all
* Favorites and history (premium only)
* Favorites Excel (CSV) and Anki export (premium only)
* Search by reading and meaning (premium only)
* Compound search (premium only)
* Supports both traditional and simplified Chinese
* Works offline (Internet connections is only required to download resources on first run).
* Integrated character database with more than 70,000 entries
* Stroke annotation
* Undo (removes last stroke)
* Pinyin and Jyutping readings
* Radical display
* Character decomposition into components
* Display character component details
* Copy and append to clipboard
Not a handwriting input method (IME).
Ad-supported (ads are not displayed if you upgrade to premium).
Version 2.0 requires Android 2.1 and later. Earlier Android versions can use version 1.7.2.
Email me for bug reports and feature requests:
hanzi.recognizer@gmail.com
Follow me on Twitter for latest updates: @kapitanpetko
http://twitter.com/kapitanpetko
Release announcements and detailed explanation of new features on my blog:
http://nelenkov.blogspot.jp/search/label/hanzi-recognizer
Google+ page:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116773495639948602415
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[2012-10-30] phunehehe: Slow Good that it has decomposition, but too slow and flaky recognition |
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[2012-06-26] Robin: Samsung Galaxy Ace Does not work. Freezes and does not work... Unless you pay, maybe. UNINSTALL |
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[2012-06-11] Shuhud: Well done! I am learning chinese and this app help me a lot! |
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[2012-04-07] Sethanon: great!,but... google done it better |
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[2012-04-06] D.vil: Not bad This nice but still got some word are missing.... |
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[2012-03-22] Eva: Exactly what a student needs |
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[2012-03-01] C: Nice. Wish you save handwritng and strokes. This would good for teaching kids how to write. |
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[2012-02-20] abby: If u have trouble with stroke order.. Get lianghao cidian, where u can look up characters by radical. A great supplement to this app. Love this tho! So much! Will pay for full version soon thank u! |
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[2012-02-12] Vaughan: Hanzi Recognizer |
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[2012-02-06] Graham: Stroke order Have you considered providing the stroke order for each character? Thanks for an interesting and useful app. |
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[2012-01-28] Elias: Very good! It works pretty well, but you need to know the exact order of strokes. Otherwise the program fails to recognize your drawing as an image. Yet it helps to train you written ability. One more drawback is that it is impossible to draw two-part complex Chinese word. Also translation is quite complicated when one Chinese symbol has several pronounciation. |
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[2012-01-02] mellowmelon: Amazing app! This was so useful on my recently trip to china! And I bought the upgrade, had a question and got a helpful reply immediately. Would recommend this to anyone learning or travelling in china! |
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[2011-12-18] Zachary: Great app, has even more potential Great app, although not as good as my translating device. IDEA: color-code pinyin so it can be matched to english spelling with corresponding color. |
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[2011-12-10] Nicholas: Not for beginner Only useful if you know how to write the actual word. |
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[2011-11-30] Malcolm: Useless unless your stroke order is 100% perfect. And even if it is, consider that you may have difficulty remembering every single stroke of an unfamiliar character long enough to enter it. |
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[2011-11-17] Tom: great! samsung infuse |
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[2011-11-13] Herman: recognition is terrible if you don't have the stroke order exactly right. it's quicker to just guess the pinyin in another program. |
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[2011-10-01] DeKnox: Good but could be better Better if more forgiving of novices, eg stroke order & direction, line accuracy |
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[2011-09-20] yayun: Very useful for those better at reading and writing than speaking |
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[2011-08-24] Bram: Very nice app for those learning chinese! Works well in my Samsung Galaxy S2. Great app! But it would be nice if we don't have to make stroke in order, and the app suggests the right stroke order. |
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[2011-08-20] mylifeisamess: Very useful |
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[2011-08-19] Philip: Wish there is a Cantonese language pack for espeak. |
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[2011-08-15] S: very responsive customer service. |
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[2011-08-15] Vincent: Does not download. Ok |
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[2011-08-10] Elena: Great. Strict about stroke order, but that's good discipline. |
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[2011-08-04] José: Not so good, you need to know the stroke order and even so it fails to recognize many characters. |
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[2011-07-28] Tim: Really good, helpful App. Rooted Moto Defy v2.1.1. Great assistance from Dev if probs arise! Plan to get paid App soon |
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[2011-07-20] David: Update quite good now but u must know the strokes correctly to get recognized. Quite hard 4 some1 need help in Dictionary. |
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[2011-06-18] OoiYo: Very poor, installed within 1min :( |
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[2011-06-17] Keri: This new update is great. Finally is more useful in character recognition! |
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[2011-06-09] M M S: Brilliant! |
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[2011-06-07] Bernard: Very nice! The free version is fun to play with and quite instructive, but you should upgrade to premium for full use. |
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[2011-05-23] shujen: It works 80% of time. Needs some improvement, but still a superb app! Love it! |
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[2011-05-20] Dorcas: Really cool concept. Had trouble recognizing words sometimes; took the advice of an earlier comment and wrote the word BIG. Then it worked better! |
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[2011-05-17] nick: the premium version offers search by hanzi and reading, decomposition is displayed in the detail view |
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[2011-05-16] S: love: character decomposition! request: direct access to character decomposition dictionary by typing hanzi plz! |
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[2011-05-08] sebzz: Bad recognition Seems to have issues recognizing even simple characters |
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[2011-04-12] Rick Ng: Very convenient. |
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[2011-03-16] Liya: Sometimes it can't read what I write, not giving the right pinyin |
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[2011-03-16] the 4/12/2011 Sometimes it can't read what I write, not giving the right pinyin |
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[2011-03-15] Richard: Works great. Stroke order is important. Would pay for this. |
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[2011-02-28] David: Try write a simple word 嘆 in simplify version and only after the 7 or 8 times it recognized, then repeat again, it can't recognizes again. Very poor. |
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[2011-02-20] Josh: Why not an IME? |
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[2011-02-20] Daniele Silvio: You ppl study stroke order before giving a low rating. Awesome app. |
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[2011-02-12] Anatoly: Super slow. First three chars had wrong pinyin. Stroke count is nice, but not enough to make up for completely wrong pronunciation. |
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[2011-01-26] lee: realllly bad recognition. almost zero percent in my case. trying to revise for exam tomorrow. i don't know the stroke order for classical chinese!! |
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[2011-01-21] Tin Hoy: It crashes if you switch between recognition models but has only downloaded one |
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[2011-01-20] C: This is really a good tool. Needs some tweaking. English speakers need instructions as to which stroke to draw first? Personal & place names, too? |
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[2011-01-13] alan s: Since this has stroke order info, it'd be great if it had option to go other way too: find with pinyin, see + learn stroke order, then practice hanzi. |
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[2011-01-11] Laughing Deer, 鹿仔: Doesn't recognize anything! |
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[2011-01-11] 鹿仔: Doesn't recognize anything! |
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[2010-12-23] winston: Good learning tool, if stoke is not correct program will not recognize character. Forces you to write correctly. |
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[2010-12-22] towkuan: Only two out of ten characters I write, on the average, gets recognized. Should be much better than that. |
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[2010-12-18] yushun: A lot of words are not recognized |
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[2010-12-13] maitreya: This is a useful application, but it does not work as well as similar programs. It is the best on Android though. |
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[2010-12-07] neuroad: The classifier works poorly. |
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[2010-12-02] leongs: Great software helps my study. More characters writing instead of single. |
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[2010-11-30] Gwyneth: Superb on my HTC Evo, love it! Best of its kind. |
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[2010-11-23] Jacob: This is exactly what I needed! Thanks so much, it works great. |
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[2010-11-13] Rachel: Awesome! Love the new dictionary features. For those having recognition problems, try writing bigger -- really fill the screen. It helps a lot. |
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[2010-11-12] Anders: Clearly useful in its current incarnation - Recognition rate is way up compared to earlier versions |
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[2010-11-08] Paul: Improving app all the time. Better if recognition not based primarily in stroke order but stroke count as well. Difficult if you don't know the order. |
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[2010-10-28] Shannon: The clipboard function is not easy to figure out. I cannot find the saved characters. |
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[2010-10-25] clamtaro: It recognized every word I've tried so far. :) |
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[2010-10-25] Vespera: It recognized every word I've tried so far. :) |
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[2010-09-26] jrhan1: Accuracy slightly improved with full traditional model but it takes awhile to load |
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[2010-09-19] S: Great idea, I want this to work, please make it work! The accuracy is wildly poor! |
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[2010-09-15] Anders: Somewhat useful, but gives plenty of weird hits. Strangely, the number of strokes seem to be disregarded. Hope for improvement. |
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[2010-09-07] Raffy: Accuracy on Simplified, even using Full, is very poor. Uninstalling |
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[2010-08-29] Sau: Can't download the traditional Chinese option. |
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[2010-08-28] Jeremiah: Useless. Didn't recognize any characters I attempted. Uninstalled. Droid2 |
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[2010-08-21] Nathan Cain - 内森: 95% of the time it can't recognize what I write. I am keeping it installed in hopes that it will improve soon. |
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[2010-08-21] 内森: 95% of the time it can't recognize what I write. I am keeping it installed in hopes that it will improve soon. |
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