Credits
Droid Sentence Miner stands on the shoulders of these projects. Thank you.
Core inspiration
Section titled “Core inspiration”- GameSentenceMiner (GPL-3.0) — the concept: OCR on untranslated games, popup lookups, one-press Anki cards with audio, the two-pass OCR pipeline and the sentence-audio editing workflow.
- Yomitan (GPL-3.0) — the dictionary format, deinflection approach, structured-content glossaries and popup UX implemented for Android.
Japanese language and dictionaries
Section titled “Japanese language and dictionaries”- Yomihon (Apache-2.0) — the Kotlin Japanese deinflector
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JapaneseDeinflector.ktis adapted from this project. - Jiten — deinflection rule data.
- Jitendex — recommended Japanese-to-English dictionary.
- jmDict for Yomitan — alternative dictionary.
- Kanjium (CC BY-SA 4.0) — pitch accent data. “The pitch accent notation, verb particle data, phonetics, homonyms and other additions or modifications to EDICT, KANJIDIC or KRADFILE were provided by Uros O. through his free database.”
OCR and Android
Section titled “OCR and Android”- meikiocr by rtr46 (code Apache-2.0; models meiki.text.detect.v0 and meiki.txt.recognition.v0, LGPL-3.0) — the default OCR engine. Models are downloaded at runtime.
- meikidroid — reference for the region-capture and overlay workflow.
- ONNX Runtime (MIT) — runs meikiocr and PaddleOCR on device.
- PaddleOCR (Apache-2.0) — PP-OCRv5 detector and PP-OCRv6 recognizer, in the optional English OCR pack.
- Wiktionary, kaikki.org and wty (CC BY-SA) — English dictionaries and IPA; English word audio from Wikimedia Commons.
- ML Kit (Google) — on-device Japanese text recognition, fallback engine.
- OwOCR — two-pass OCR concepts used by GSM.
- AnkiDroid (GPL-3.0) — the AnkiDroid API used for card creation.
- AnkiConnect — HTTP API for desktop Anki.
Content
Section titled “Content”- Aozora Bunko — the bundled sample image uses a passage from 走れメロス by 太宰治 (public domain). Its ruby markup doubles as a furigana-filter test case.
- Black Jack ni Yoroshiku — free-reuse manga pages from densho810.com/free used to test Book mode.
License
Section titled “License”Droid Sentence Miner is licensed under the GPL-3.0. The adapted Yomihon deinflector remains available under its Apache-2.0 license wherever required; see the file header in the repository.
Droid Sentence Miner is not affiliated with Anki, AnkiDroid, Yomitan, Jiten or GameSentenceMiner.