Wadan Sewuma is a English to Sinhala dictinary look-up app for android. *capture a english word by a camera snapshot do the sinhala dictionary look-up for it. *Tap on speaker button to listen to the pronunciation
This Uses Tesseract 3.01 open source OCR engine to find text in images
******* HOW TO USE ********** use the resizable view finder to frame the desired word through camera. Tap on shutter button* recognized text will display in the next screen. do necessary adjustments and word definition will appear.* to get the word definition you must be connected to internet.* turn on Continuous preview mode for real time Optical Character Recognition.
** important for maximum recognition accuracy **- Various factors can cause the OCR to fail: uneven illumination, stylized text, or text without enough contrast from the background. Try to have good lighting.- Hold the device steady, and be sure the picture is in focus.-Hold the device horizontally
**** TO DO ******* paragraphs, phrases translation* improve on acuracy* add more languages* improve on native andriod font rendering
**** COMPLAINS AND FEEDBACK ****please be kind enough to give feedback or complain before rating the app as one star.use the email developer on google play or contact me trough pahan123 at gmail com
**DEVELOPMENT NOTES*** based on a open source project by Robert Theis (android port for tesseract)
special thanks to Lishan Puwakovita for graphic designing and Arunoda Susiripala for AkuruLK sinhala font rendering.
VERSION HISTORY
- Version 0.6.6 posted on 2012-06-17
Several fixes and updates - Version 0.6.6 posted on 2012-06-17
* Fixed sinhala rendering issues,* Text to speech support
Program Details
- Category: Home & Hobby > Food & Drink
- Publisher: pahans
- License: Free
- Price: N/A
- Version: 0.6.6
- Platform: android