Mine your first card

This is the shortest path from a fresh install to a complete card. The example uses AnkiDroid; the flow is the same with AnkiConnect.

1. Install dictionaries

Open Settings → Dictionaries and tap Install next to Jitendex and Kanjium pitch accents. Wait for the progress bar to finish. Pitch is optional but makes the card graph match Yomitan’s.

2. Choose an Anki backend

Open Settings → Anki and pick one:

• AnkiDroid — install AnkiDroid, grant the API permission from the settings page, and enable AnkiDroid → Settings → Advanced → AnkiDroid API.
• AnkiConnect — start desktop Anki with the AnkiConnect add-on and enter its address, for example http://192.168.1.10:8765.

Then pick a deck and note type. If you do not have one, Droid Sentence Miner creates a usable note type for you. Existing note types such as Anki’s Basic or a Yomitan/GameSentenceMiner Anime Cards type are filled by field name. See Anki mining.

3. Download the OCR models

Open Settings → OCR → Download meikiocr models. This is a one-time 31 MB download. If you skip it, the app uses ML Kit.

4. Try the built-in sample

The Home tab contains a public-domain Aozora Bunko passage and an image picker. Use Pick an image to test OCR, lookup and mining without opening a game. This is also a quick way to confirm that Anki is connected.

5. Set up auto OCR

1. Open the game or video and start playback.
2. Long-press the floating bubble → Start auto OCR.
3. In Android’s share sheet choose A single app and pick the game. On older Android versions, share the entire screen.
4. If no text area exists for the current orientation, the area editor opens. Drag a box over the dialogue box or subtitle area, then tap Save. Keep the box on the text itself — not on buttons such as スキップ or クイックロード.
5. Open Live text and check that new lines appear as the game speaks.

The first read usually appears within a second. A line is logged after several reads agree, so a typewriter line may take a few hundred milliseconds longer.

6. Mine the line

Tap a word in the live subtitle, in the floating live window, or on the Texts tab. The definition popup opens. Tap Anki; the button becomes ✓ In Anki when the card is created.

The card contains:

• the word and its reading,
• the rendered glossary (and pitch graph if configured),
• the full context sentence,
• a screenshot of the game at the moment the line was read,
• word audio from JapanesePod101/Jisho,
• the sentence’s voice clip from the replay buffer.

7. Check the result

Open AnkiDroid or Anki and find the note in the selected deck. If the fields look wrong, open Anki mining to see how fields are mapped, or Settings → Anki to change the note type.

The sentence is the point

A card is much more useful with the original sentence and audio than with the word alone. DSM always tries to attach the line it came from; if a lookup has no sentence, it still creates a word card with audio and picture.