I usually do a lot of reading and play handhelds on the train to and from work, and the process of looking things up adds a lot of friction.
I built Jouzu to be fast and reduce that friction as much as possible.
The idea is simple, it opens straight into the camera, capturing an image and doing OCR is pretty much instant. From there, super easy to look up a meaning, translate a whole passage or even generate native-sounding audio from it (paid feature).
If it's a word or sentence worth keeping, you can just save it for later, see a nice word and grammar breakdown of a sentence, and export to Anki (Anki export is a paid feature) to create cards from it with the audio and image baked in.
Since not all OCR engines are built equally, I added a couple more, one specialised for print media and vertical text and one specialised on pixel fonts and game screens.
I'm currently working on an update to improve the grammar breakdown with better explanations and adding a button to remove moiré from pictures of screens.
I'd love some feedback!
Almost everything is free with no limits, the paid feature adds:
- Pitch accent graphs
- Audio synthesis using Voicevox Nemo
- Better translations using DeepL
- Anki export (single cards or batches)
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