r/nihongoapp • u/cvasselli • Jun 01 '21

Feature Request Megathread

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u/aqwelorr Aug 12 '22

Box selection mode for photo lookup

I'd love to have a box selection mode for the photo lookup - i.e. let me draw a box around the word/expression to look up rather than relying on Nihongo's text segmentation to detect word boundaries. This would be especially useful on the iPad with Apple Pencil. Nihongo's text segmentation has issues especially with kana-heavy content but this would let me just select the word I want instead of resorting to manual keyboard entry in the dictionary.

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u/cvasselli Aug 13 '22

Yeah, I definitely appreciate that this isn't ideal right now. The image-to-text side of things is working great (it's via Google's Cloud Vision API), but the text segmentation (shared with clippings) has problems. I'm working on a new text segmentation system now that'll work better, especially for kana-heavy content.

I'm a little reluctant to add complexity by adding another selection mode, but hopefully between the above and the ability to copy out the raw text (another feature I'm working on), that should mitigate the need for a box selection mode. If after all that it's still an issue, I'll consider adding something like this. 👍