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The Kanji Reader, your new fellow for learning Kanji, like never before. With around 3,000 Kanji embedded you can now read in Kanji in only 2 sec! Japanese books, magazines or manga are not mysteries anymore! What kind of people would find the Kanji Reader most useful?
People who: - Are currently studying Japanese
- Are fluent in oral Japanese but still have difficulties in reading
- Have lived in Japan for many years but still can't read the Kanji
 Therefore, the Kanji Reader is for YOU!
How have you searched for unknown Kanji characters up to now?
By counting the strokes? By learning the radicals? By trying to reproduce them on a tactile screen? ...You don't need to mess with all of that stuff anymore. Meet your new indispensable companion if you'd prefer to look up a kanji in just 2 seconds.
But what is the Kanji Reader?
Simply the world's first electronic Japanese scanning dictionary (denshi-jisho), brought to you by WizCom Technologies Ltd. and Japan21 Inc. Just scroll over your Kanji/word with the Kanji Reader and the English definition accompanied by the pronunciation will appear on the screen, almost like magic!
You can also change your dictionary mode into English to Japanese or Japanese to Japanese very simply.
It takes only 2 seconds to scan and translate a printed word and the Kanji Reader can be used for various kinds of printed material - books, magazines, manga, invoices...or whatever you want! 
In addition to speed, we've maximized ease of use. For example, the device can be held and used with only one hand and it's been ergonomically designed for both left- and right-handed users. The simple and straight-forward software installed in the Kanji Reader makes it very intuitive to use.
To sum up, what are the technical features that make the Kanji Reader so unique? - A very small, high-precision optical image scanner to capture printed text
- Optical character recognition (OCR) software capable of digitizing kanji and other Japanese characters - supports vertically written Japanese, as well as horizontal text
- A custom lexical database (based on Sanseido's well-accepted Daily Concise dictionaries) with a built-in micro search engine
 - A bilingual user interface to switch between Japanese and English menus
Don't wait anymore if you want to improve your Japanese skills like never before!  What exciting news for Japanese learners! This mobile scanning translator reads kanji and shows pronunciation and definitions in both English and simple Japanese. It's a small pen-shaped device with an optical head scanner, OCR software and a dictionary database. To use the dictionary pen, simply scan your unknown word, and the translation will appear in only a few seconds. Any printed material—newspapers, magazines, text books and printer output—can be read effortlessly. It is not a dream to read kanji! Just use the pen as your daily tool for learning Japanese.
What are Kanji? Kanji are the heart of the Japanese writing system. The Japanese language counts around 6,000 Kanji in use but only 3,000 are commonly used in every-day life. That means that there are indeed 3,000 characters to know if you want to read Japanese as a Japanese person. However, only 1,945 Kanji are enough if you want to read most of written references. Still, the learning of Kanji is quite a huge labor for every Japanese as a second-language learner who wants to tackle the writing system. Many dictionaries and study aids are available for learning them...but the study takes so much time! Just imagine, when you are reading a Japanese book if you have to stop each time to search for an unknown Kanji or compound (usually Kanji are associated with other Kanji for expressing a word/meaning), you will soon lose your train of thought. Fortunately, Japan21, a Japanese high-technology company finally created THE tool for every Kanji learner (and by extension of course every student of Japanese): the Kanji Reader. Scroll over your unknown Kanji, and see the pronunciation and meaning! Although the Kanji Reader is basically aimed at those who have reached the intermediate level of Japanese, the Kanji Reader can also be very useful for beginners as it can be used to read the other alphabets widely used in Japan: the Kana. Comprised of the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries, Kana are mainly used in books for beginners, for borrowed foreign words and for certain native Japanese expressions. Anyway, you can also use the Kanji Reader to scan words written in Kana and see their meaning in English. |
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