Kanji Recognizer

Handwritten Japanese kanji recognition and writing quiz. Integrates with WWWJDIC.

** New: Version 2.0 now fully supports tablets.

** New: Kanji writing quiz. Test yourself based on school year or JLPT level. Check your answers against the proper stroke order using animated diagrams.

Now offers premium features (history/favorites, export/import, search by reading/meaning, Simeji/OpenWnn/ATOK integration, local stroke order database). You can upgrade form within the application (Settings->Upgrade to premium), no need to download a new application.

Premium upgrade price: around $4.99 (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 reading, meaning, radical and more. You can copy single/strings of characters to clipboard using the context menu. History/favorites and search by reading or meaning also available (premium only). Call from within Simeji, OpenWnn/Flick, ATOK or OpenWnn Plus to input characters using handwriting (premium only, Simeji/OpenWnn/Atok Japanese IME install required).

Test your kanji writing skills by school year or JLPT level: write kanji based on reading and/or meaning hints. Check your total score, and compare your writing with the proper stroke order using easy to understand animated stroke order diagrams. Free version offers JLPT N5 and elementary school grade 1 and 2 kanji. Premium versions lets you select all grades/JLPT levels.

Follow proper, or at least basic (left to right, top to bottom, horizontal before vertical, etc.), stroke order for best results.

Features
  * Tablet support
  * Animated stroke order diagrams (online for free version, offline for premium)
  * Kanji writing quiz: test yourself by school grade or JLPT level. Bell/buzzer sounds for right/wrong answer.
  * Automatically searches on each stroke for immediate feedback
  * Configurable drawing pen size and color
  * Shake to delete stroke/all strokes
  * Favorites and history (premium only)
  * Favorites Excel (CSV) and Anki export (premium only)
  * Simeji, OpenWnn/Flick, ATOK, OpenWnn Plus integration (mushroom) (premium only)
  * Search by reading and meaning (premium only)
  * Three high-accuracy recognition models
  * Compressed model for older/slower devices.
  * Works offline (Internet connections is only required to download resources on first run).
  * Stroke annotation
  * Undo (removes last stroke)
  * Integrated kanji database with more than 13,000 entries
  * Kanji decomposition into components
  * Integration with WWWJDIC for Android (can be used as the handwriting recognition backend)
  * Copy/append recognized kanji to clipboard to paste into other programs.

Not a handwriting input method (IME).

Ad-supported (ads are removed 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:
kanji.recognizer@gmail.com

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Release announcements and detailed explanation of new features on my blog:

http://nelenkov.blogspot.com/