Export characters from browser

scribble

Member
Hi all,

I am using the graded reader at http://www.thechairmansbao.com/ and would like to save new characters to Pleco flashcards.

I know the format used in the textfiles which can then be imported as Pleco flashcards is very simple. I just need a way to highlight a character in the browser, press a short-cut and automatically write the character into a textfile in that format.

I can then import the textfile to Pleco and voila! I can immediately use Pleco flashcards to review new characters I come across on the web.

Does anyone know a chrome/firefox extension or another implementation of this, or could write a script to do it? (It would be a very simple script, but I still can't do it myself).

Cheers,
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mikelove

皇帝
Staff member
Are you on iOS or Android? We actually support that within Pleco on both platforms - on iOS you'd use our web reader function (Open Reader in the sidebar menu, then Web Browser), on Android you would 'share' the article from the web browser to "Pleco Reader" - our software would extract the text from the page and present it to you in a tap-lookup interface.
 

scribble

Member
Hello,

That's a cool function, but not what I'm looking for. Importing it into the Pleco reader and then creating flashcards from there is not very convenient, and the imported text often has a lot of extraneous text from navigation elements etc.

What I'm looking for is a simple way to send new characters I come across while browsing the web on my laptop to my flashcard deck. While reading on the web I use the Zhongwen chrome extension which is a super efficient way to look up definitions by hovering over the character. But to get the character to my flashcard deck I then have to manually create a flashcard in Pleco...

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Trickyt57

秀才
If you are using iOS then simply open http://www.thechairmansbao.com, or whatever website you like, in the Pleco reader web browser, highlight any character and then click the "+" key at the top or bottom of your screen.

If the + is inside a dotted box, it means the character is already in one of your FLASHCARD lists. If the + is inside a box without dots, it means the card is already in your default flash card list.

http://www.thechairmansbao.com seems like a good place for beginners. You can read simplified articles designed for the HSK level you choose, from Level 3 upwards.
 
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