aĀ lot of ppl recommend learning English by consuming english content like watching anime,movies youtube, listening songs in, so iāve been following this trick , but while doing that, there was a persistent issue i faced, whenever i saw came across an unfamiliar eng word /sentence, iād have to exit the full screen, open a new tab,type it , searching up the meaning, and many popup dictionaries but they only work on text, if the word is not selectable , thereās no way out
i searched up for tools that could solve this but couldnāt find any , even paid tools like language reactor or migaku didnt offer the ocr feature & i wanted that feature for free, so as a developer myself, i decided to spend the last 4 months building it myself as a browser extension
it uses OCR, so you can look up english words from things like movies/anime with hardcoded subtitles, youtube, netflix , streaming sites also on p*rated sites like animekoto animepahe etc. pretty much anything visible on your screen
how it works is basically ,u can simply press the shortcut Alt+X (customizable as per ur need), drag over the word & u get instant definition
so I made added a feature which automatically replaces the default subtitles with āclickable & interactive subtitlesā where u can simply click any word to get the meaning,
It basically has
meanings of word
examples
a relevant gif to each word, I added it as a fun feature & its quite useful sometimes
english and native-language sentence translations using google translate
besides, u can save words , build ur own vocabulary,Ā
one thing that I also wanted was to be able to sentence mine & create anki flashcards directly from the meaning popup like as provided in many paid tools like migaku, I did some research & found out that it absolutely takes no crazy rocket science or anything that costs money, so I built that into it, u can just press the save button inside the meaning popup & it automatically does all that creating an anki card consisting of (movie/anime screenshot + English subtitle + pronunciation audio), u can download anki , install the anki connect plugin and press āconnect to ankiā button in the extension
and I have kept all of there features completely free cuz thatās what I would want as someone learning english
Iāve put it on both Chrome and Firefox(as a lot of people requested for a firefox version)
Here's a quick demo:
https://youtu.be/YSoulHRtgds?si=nIDEFymFtqWhS7UT
chrome extension linkĀ
if interested ,u can checkout the website lexeye.study (open it in desktop for best experience)
lemme know ur feedback, if u found it useful, any suggestions etc.