(Hmm, looking at that website, I just learned that it also has Russian and French language search options available.) I'm not sure if you can add dictionaries to take advantage of the search interface. Think Nelson's on steroids.īut, bear in mind it is freeware (I believe there's a donation option) and as such it is reliant upon a free, open-source dictionary: the edict/kanjidic pair hosted by Jim Breen.
*However*, of use to the fluent as well as the beginner, it also has a full suite of character-element based lookups: Kanji by radical, kanji by SKIP, kanji by multi-radical, and kanji by Chinese radical. And it certainly has what seems to be a decent of language-learning tools: vocab list builders, JLPT-oriented study tools, etc. As the choice of name may (or may not) indirectly suggest, Imiwa was likely developed with language learning in mind. So, on my iPhone, this is where I turn to: The one thing you don't get with EBetc in any of its iterations is a radical/stroke-based lookup (this is where JEDict beats EBMac and Logovista etc. If you don't already have these things, it's definitely a hurdle to consider. Obvious caveat: I have these CD-ROMs and PDICT files and so forth.
Other than on my Mac (where I use JEDict, which I highly recommend to anyone who will listen), I use it on all of my iOS devices, plus my Android, plus my Windows computer. What this reader does: if you already have an EPWing-formatted dictionary CD-ROM (e.g., Kojien, Daijirin, Kenkyusha "Green Goddess," etc.), or PDIC format dictionary files (e.g., downloadable versions of Eijiro), among others, you can upload that data to the app and then search it from there. EBetc is the same thing, except it handles a few more file formats. Longtime Mac users who have wrestled with Japanese dictionary data in the past may remember, for example, Logophile or its antecedent (whose name eludes me now). Note "reader." It is not a dictionary itself. (1) EBPocket, the iOS (and Android) version of the EBWin (as of 2017ish, also available as EBMac) dictionary reader software. Still, both are quite useful so I bring them up just the same for the list's archives-if they don't help you, then someone might benefit from reading this info now or down the road. Two options, neither of which are precisely what you're looking for in that neither offers a scan-and-lookup function. (My apologies if this email ends up being a duplicate-I tried responding to the list the other day but I think it went to the wrong address so I'm using the web interface now instead.)