KaiwaLens

JAPANESE ON SCREEN

Read the Japanese on your screen.

Point KaiwaLens at any part of your screen and it reads the Japanese there, splits it into words, and shows you the reading and meaning of each one: a game, a manga page, a PDF, a video, a website that will not let you select text. It runs on your computer. No account, no subscription, nothing sent anywhere.

Install

1. Run the installer. It asks whether to install for you only, which needs no administrator, or for everyone on the computer.
2. On its first start KaiwaLens downloads its dictionaries, about 280 MB, once.
3. After that it updates itself, and works offline.

Other files

• Every installer
• The dictionary corpus, published under CC BY-SA 4.0 (its licence and sources)
• The source code on GitHub