Yomitai

What is Yomitai?

Yomitai is a web-based tool designed to assist users in reading native Japanese material, particularly books. It allows users to take a picture of a page and point at kanji they don’t recognize to instantly see its reading and meaning. The tool also offers features like pinning words for quick lookup and color-coding for easy reference.

How to use Yomitai?

Users can upload an image of Japanese text (e.g., from a book or manga). Then, they can click on the words with kanji they don’t know to see their reading and meaning in a popup dictionary. They can also pin words and use color-coding for quick lookup.

Yomitai’s Core Features

Instant reading with a point-and-click dictionary Color coding for quick lookup Versatile OCR for various image types Sticky notes and word highlighting

Yomitai’s Use Cases

• Reading manga, e-books, and photos with Japanese text
• Improving Kanji and vocabulary through immersion
• Quickly looking up unfamiliar words in Japanese texts