Yomiwa is a dictionary, translator and optical recognizer designed to help you read, write and learn Japanese.

Yomiwa’s powerful offline Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine can recognize more than 4000 Japanese characters in your pictures or with your device camera. Yomiwa will help you read newspapers, books, menus, signs or your favorite mangas.

Yomiwa’s dictionary is extensive, intuitive, fast, and delivers Japanese word details into more than 20 target languages. You can input words in any language, alphabet, or even by drawing.

Yomiwa features advanced Japanese text analysis. It can break Japanese sentences into words, describe conjugate forms, display furiganas, and even provide translation to English with its new offline translation model.

Unique social feature: whenever you have trouble with some Japanese, you can always ask a question or post a picture on the Yomiwa wall. Yomiwa’s users, from beginner to advanced level, will come to help you.

EXTENSIVE DICTIONARY:
• Detailed information about words and kanjis (on-yomi, kun-yomi, meaning, stroke order, compounds etc.)
• Huge database of example sentences (> 250K) built from numerous sources
• Fast and accurate Handwriting Recognition
• Intuitive Radical search
• Look up conjugated forms, even if they are incomplete
• Many target languages available: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hungarian, Chinese, Dutch, Slovene, Swedish and more
• Search definitions in any kind of alphabet: Kanjis / Hiraganas / Katakanas / Romajis.
• You can search from Japanese words or from foreign words
• Build vocabulary lists of Japanese words, Kanjis or Sentences (which you can share as files or text in many ways)
• Listen to the Japanese pronunciation of words and example sentences through the “Speak” function

OFFLINE TRANSLATOR (Japanese to English):
• Yomiwa can now translate whole Japanese sentences to English

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR):
• A powerful OCR engine which lets you recognize instantly Japanese characters in your pictures or from your camera
• Yomiwa can recognize more that 4000 Japanese characters
• Works for both horizontal and vertical Japanese text

TEXT ANALYZER:
• Paste some text, or import it from the OCR modes, into the Text Analyzer to get definitions of each word in the text
• Furiganas are displayed automatically
• Listen to the Japanese text with the “Speak” function
• Furiganas in Safari: whenever you are browsing on a web page with some Japanese text, tap the “share” button at the bottom and select “Yomiwa Add Furiganas” to display all furiganas

YOMIWA WALL:
• Get help from the user community by sharing pictures on the Yomiwa Wall

Yomiwa is perfect for:
• Using as your everyday Japanese dictionary
• Upgrading your reading skills to the next level by reading any Japanese text with Yomiwa’s OCR technology
• Increasing your vocabulary by building your own word lists
• Learning and study Japanese Kanjis

We are very responsive to your feed-back and suggestions: [email protected]