Amido

A kanji trainer with handwriting recognition

Features:

• includes a library of 1000 kanji with multiple Japanese voicings and translations
• can search Japanese and translations
• simple recognition of handwritten characters
• perform quizzes of text-to-character and character-to-text
• can show voicings in romaji (latin) or kana (Japanese)

Implementation details

Originally, this project was meant as an exercise in neural networks.

To compare its quality, I first implemented a ridiculously simple algorithm, that compares the input stroke-by-stroke with a database. Surprisingly, this method already worked with only one sample per character good enough for the trainer, so I never implemented the neural network.

Versions

Web service

Currently, only the handwriting recognition is available online:

https://michi.is-a-geek.org/amido/

Android app

This is considered the "main" version.

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